first birthday
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- At the baby's first birthday party, she sat beside it, fed it cake, and smiled at the camera.
I think back to my first birthday in Los Angeles.
- I think back to my first birthday in Los Angeles.
- My son soon after his first birthday would say Gaga to mean water.
- But I have flights to go visit her and I'm going to Ireland the weekend of her son's first birthday.
- So yesterday I had friend's daughter's first birthday party and my friends Lindsay and Angel, they got a new hot tub.
- Let's say baby boy, your baby boy's first birthday.
Examples
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And for David's first birthday party, Beau brought a girl.
Fiction book (1990) -
In Denver, he spent his first birthday away from home.
Fiction book (1997) -
That was my first birthday party.
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Her first birthday away from home.
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I think back to my first birthday in Los Angeles.
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I love the style and color, and my daughter wore it for her first birthday photo.
Blog text (26) -
Adam's parents began teaching him a gesture before his first birthday.
Academic text (2013) -
Because as you saw in yesterday's video, it was Nola and Buzz's first birthday yesterday.
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When Hoops celebrated his first birthday, he amused his family by saying, "Mama," "Dada," and "double dribble."
Fiction book (1998) -
We decorated the house with balloons and cake for the baby's first birthday celebration.
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the celebration marking a child's first year (turning one)' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'first' (ordinal) with 'birthday' (annual celebration). This ordinal+noun composition follows regular English patterns and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand the MWE.
Etymology
The phrase first birthday is literal: first means the first year and birthday is the yearly day you were born. Families often give a cake and a party to mark this first year, so it refers to 'the celebration marking a child's first year of life'.