first team

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   a team representing a college or university

   Synonymsvarsity

   Broaderteam

Questions about first team

What does first team mean?

first team means "a team representing a college or university".

What is another word for first team?

Close synonyms include varsity. 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 team a common word?

first team 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.