double first

1. 1.

   a first-class honours degree in two subjects

   Broaderfirst

   United Kingdom

Questions about double first

What does double first mean?

double first means "a first-class honours degree in two subjects".

Is double first a common word?

double first 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.