first-generation

English

Adjective

first-generation (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to an immigrant or their family.
    • 2017 November 3, Rochelle Sharpe, “Are You First Gen? Depends on Who’s Asking”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      Trying to help a high school senior get into his dream school, Laurie Kopp Weingarten called the college to emphasize that the boy should be able to lay claim to the latest, and fuzziest, of all admissions hooks: being a first-generation student.
  2. Of or relating to the initial version of a class of products.
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