first appearance

Questions about first appearance

What does first appearance mean?

first appearance means "the act of beginning something new".

What is another word for first appearance?

Close synonyms include introduction, debut, launching, unveiling, entry. 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 first appearance a common word?

first appearance 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.