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First-rate   /fərst-reɪt/   Listen
noun
First-rate  n.  (Naut.) A war vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful class.


adjective
First-rate  adj.  Of the highest excellence; preeminent in quality, size, or estimation. "Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German." "Hermocrates... a man of first-rate ability."


first-rate  adj.  
1.
Of the highest quality; as, a first-rate reporter.
Synonyms: ace, A-one, first-class, super, tip-top, topnotch, tops(predicate).





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"First-rate" Quotes from Famous Books



... numerous applicants with prior claims. He has already six, who occupy him six hours in the day, and is likewise lecturer to the college. It would, however, be very easy to obtain an excellent tutor. Lefevre and Malkin are men of first-rate mathematical abilities, and both of our college. I can scarcely bear to write on Mathematics or Mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of that science, if a name sacred to the useful and embellishing arts may be applied to the perception ...
— Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay • George Otto Trevelyan
... certain that there is an intense degree of rivalry between the males in their singing. Bird-fanciers match their birds to see which will sing longest; and I was told by Mr. Yarrell that a first-rate bird will sometimes sing till he drops down almost dead, or according to Bechstein (30. 'Naturgesch. der Stubenvogel,' 1840, s. 252.), quite dead from rupturing a vessel in the lungs. Whatever the cause may be, male birds, as I hear from Mr. Weir, often die suddenly during the season of song. That ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin
... religiously as ever. 'Water will now be a scarce article, for as we get out of the doldrums we shall get showers only now and then in the trades. This life is telling severely on my strength. Henry holds out first-rate.' Henry did not start well, but under hardships he improved ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... He's a regular first-rate fellow! He can do anything;' my hero-worship and my pride in my chief all coming into play. Besides, if I was not clever and book-learned myself, it was something to belong to some ...
— Cousin Phillis • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... Behn confessedly does not attain (nor was such her intention) the deep philosophy and exquisite melody of the great Spanish poet, she has produced a first-rate specimen of the romance drama, rococo perhaps, and with quaint ornaments, but none the less full ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. II • Aphra Behn


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