FIRST APPEARANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does first appearance mean? 

• FIRST APPEARANCE (noun)
  The noun FIRST APPEARANCE has 1 sense:

1. the act of beginning something new

  Familiarity information: FIRST APPEARANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIRST APPEARANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of beginning something new

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

debut; entry; first appearance; introduction; launching; unveiling

Context example:

they looked forward to the debut of their new product line

Hypernyms ("first appearance" is a kind of...):

beginning; commencement; start (the act of starting something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "first appearance"):

induction (the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time))

product introduction (the introduction (usually by an advertising campaign) of a new product or product line)

ushering in (the introduction of something new)

naturalisation; naturalization (the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous)

 Context examples 

The first appearance of bright green leaves heralds the start of spring, nudging insects, birds and other animals into a whirlwind of action.

(Urbanization delays spring plant growth in warm regions, National Science Foundation)

Elizabeth, as they drove along, watched for the first appearance of Pemberley Woods with some perturbation; and when at length they turned in at the lodge, her spirits were in a high flutter.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Miss Price, known only by name to half the people invited, was now to make her first appearance, and must be regarded as the queen of the evening.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Did they walk by the beach of a sea, where the hairy man gathered shellfish and ate them as he gathered, it was with eyes that roved everywhere for hidden danger and with legs prepared to run like the wind at its first appearance.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Hence, ladies and gentlemen, he added, that frightful brood of saurians which still affright our eyes when seen in the Wealden or in the Solenhofen slates, but which were fortunately extinct long before the first appearance of mankind upon this planet.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We have had some dramatic entrances and exits upon our small stage at Baker Street, but I cannot recollect anything more sudden and startling than the first appearance of Thorneycroft Huxtable, M.A., Ph.D., etc. His card, which seemed too small to carry the weight of his academic distinctions, preceded him by a few seconds, and then he entered himself—so large, so pompous, and so dignified that he was the very embodiment of self-possession and solidity.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fanny Price was at this time just ten years old, and though there might not be much in her first appearance to captivate, there was, at least, nothing to disgust her relations.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Had his first appearance, or his resemblance to the picture they had just been examining, been insufficient to assure the other two that they now saw Mr. Darcy, the gardener's expression of surprise, on beholding his master, must immediately have told it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

His father's looks of solemnity and amazement on this his first appearance on any stage, and the gradual metamorphosis of the impassioned Baron Wildenheim into the well-bred and easy Mr. Yates, making his bow and apology to Sir Thomas Bertram, was such an exhibition, such a piece of true acting, as he would not have lost upon any account.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Rather ashamed that on my first appearance I had stayed so late, I joined the last of Gatsby's guests who were clustered around him. I wanted to explain that I'd hunted for him early in the evening and to apologize for not having known him in the garden.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)