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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



... feelings, she would much preferred to have been left to live through her misery alone; but she could not but appreciate the kindness which endeavoured to throw over her and hers in their trouble the aegis of first-rate county respectability. She was saved from the necessity of giving a direct answer to this suggestion by the return of Mrs Robarts and Grace herself. The door was opened slowly, and they crept into the room as though they were aware that their ...
— The Last Chronicle of Barset • Anthony Trollope
... now. It was dry to us that winter because we did not want to know any thing about it. Any book will be dry when we don't care to read it. I have found that no study is dry which I really want to know about. I like grammar first-rate now." ...
— The Bobbin Boy - or, How Nat Got His learning • William M. Thayer
... I had a cold, and my neck was so stiff I couldn't move, she said it didn't better those old Jews any to be a stiff-necked race, but it certainly did me. Sometimes Miss Prue talks so't I can't understand just what she means; but Sara likes her first-rate, and so do ...
— Sara, a Princess • Fannie E. Newberry
... sir," said Jack, "we captured that ship with the cutter the night after we went away—I'm not a first-rate navigator, and I was blown to the Zaffarine Islands, where I remained two months for want of hands: as soon as I procured them I made sail again—I have lost three men by sharks, and I have two wounded in to-day's fight—the ship ...
— Mr. Midshipman Easy • Captain Frederick Marryat
... one instrument torture another. Neither Cremonese Violins nor old instruments in general require to be heavily strung: the mellowness of the wood and their delicate construction require the stringing to be such as will assist in bringing out that richness of tone which belongs to first-rate instruments. If the bridge and sound-board be heavily weighted with thick strings, vibration will surely be checked. In the case of modern instruments, heavy in wood, and needing constant use to wear down their freshness, strings of a larger size may ...
— The Violin - Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators • George Hart


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