They were the first farmers. Since the sixteenth century, the word farm has meant agricultural land.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

The word HeLa uses the first two letters of her first and last name.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

"America was the first one to mention this word, and now the others are following."

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

And so now I have a great time!" On the first day of South By Southwest 2010, word came of the death of singer-songwriter Alex Chilton.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

The first function deals with recognizing a word, the second with understanding the word's context in a sentence, and the third lets us articulate the word by speaking.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15