Usually means: Initially, in the beginning stages.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word at first:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. at first: Merriam-Webster
  2. at first: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. at first: Wordnik
  4. at first: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. at first: Wiktionary
  6. At first, at first: Dictionary.com
  7. at first: Rhymezone
  8. at first: FreeDictionary.org
  9. At first: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. at first: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. at first: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. at first: Idioms

Definitions from WordNet (at first)

adverb:  at the beginning ("At first he didn't notice anything strange")


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