top of the line, finest quality, choice, select, excellent, superlative
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First-rate Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
first-rate
\first"-rate`\ (?), a. of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the german. arnold. hermocrates a man of first-rate ability. (thucyd).
first-rate
\first"-rate`\, n. (naut.) a war vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful class.
first-rate
adj : (informal) of the highest quality; "an ace reporter"; "a crack shot"; "a first-rate golfer"; "a super party"; "played top-notch tennis"; "an athlete in tiptop condition"; "she is absolutely tops" [syn: ace, a-one, crack, super, tiptop, topnotch, tops(p) ]
adv : quite well; "she doesn't feel first-rate today" [syn: very well ]
Adjective
1. of the highest quality; "an ace reporter"; "a crack shot"; "a first-rate golfer"; "a super party"; "played top-notch tennis"; "an athlete in tiptop condition"; "she is absolutely tops"
(synonym) ace, A-one, crack, super, tiptop, topnotch, tops(p)
(similar) superior
(classification) colloquialism
Adverb
1. quite well; "she doesn't feel first-rate today"
(synonym) very well
First-rate Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
First rate was the designation used by the Royal Navy for its largest ships of the line. While the size and establishment of guns and men changed over the 250 years that the rating system held sway, from the early years of the eighteenth century the first rates comprised those ships mounting 100 guns or more on three gundecks.
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