at first hand

1. 1.

   from the original source; directly

   “I heard this story firsthand”

   Synonymsfirsthand

Questions about at first hand

What does at first hand mean?

at first hand means "from the original source; directly".

What is another word for at first hand?

Close synonyms include firsthand. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is at first hand a common word?

at first hand is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.