firsthand

Thân thiện

I heard the story firsthand from the explorer.

Definition

Adjective: Received or obtained directly from the original source or through personal experience, without any intermediary. Adverb: In a direct way from the original source or through personal experience.

Usage

• Adjective: Used to describe information, knowledge, experience, or accounts that are direct and not secondhand.
  • The journalist provided firsthand testimony from the war zone.
  • She has firsthand experience of the challenges faced by small businesses.
• Adverb: Used to describe how someone learns, hears, or experiences something.
  • I learned about the culture firsthand by living there for a year.
  • He heard the news firsthand from the manager.

Advanced Usage

• "to get/learn/know something firsthand": To acquire information or understanding through direct personal involvement or observation.
  • You will get to know the difficulties of the job firsthand.

Variants and Related Words

• Firsthand account (noun phrase): A report or description based on the observer's own direct experience.
  • The book is based on the soldier's firsthand account of the battle.
• Firsthand knowledge (noun phrase): Understanding gained through direct involvement.
  • He speaks with firsthand knowledge of the legal system.

Synonyms

• Adjective: Direct, immediate, personal, eyewitness.
• Adverb: Directly, personally, from the horse's mouth (idiomatic).

Antonyms

• Adjective/Adverb: Secondhand, indirect, hearsay.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. received directly from a source
   • firsthand information

Adverb

1. from the original source; directly
   • I heard this story firsthand

Từ đồng nghĩa

• at first hand