Usually means: Directly experienced or personally observed.
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  1. first-hand: Collins English Dictionary
  2. First-Hand, First-hand, first-hand: Wordnik
  3. first-hand: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. first-hand: Wiktionary
  5. First-hand, first-hand: Dictionary.com
  6. first-hand: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  7. First-hand: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. first-hand: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. First-hand: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. first-hand: FreeDictionary.org
  11. first-hand: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adverb:  Directly or from personal experience.
▸ adjective:  Alternative spelling of firsthand [Direct, without intermediate stages.]

Similar:
firsthand, at first hand, straight from the horse's mouth, direct, experientially, face to face, directly, anecdotally, livingly, viva voce, more...

Opposite:
second-hand, indirect, hearsay, mediated, derivative

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Similar:
firsthand, at first hand, straight from the horse's mouth, direct, experientially, face to face, directly, anecdotally, livingly, viva voce, more...

Opposite:
second-hand, indirect, hearsay, mediated, derivative

Colors:
    red,     blue,     green,     yellow,     orange, more...



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