A person or thing that arrives first; the initial arrival or earliest participant in a sequence of events.
Compound of 'first' (Old English fyrst, superlative of 'fore') + 'comer' (one who comes). This descriptive compound emerged naturally in English.
In land rushes and frontier history, being a 'firstcomer' meant everything—early settlers claimed the best land, making this word politically and economically loaded.
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