First-rate Definition

fûrstrāt
adjective
Of the highest class, rank, or quality; very good; excellent.
Webster's New World
(military, nautical, historical) Describing a ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gundecks.
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(by extension) Exceptionally good.

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(idiomatic) Superb, exceptional; of the best sort; very high quality.

A first rate restaurant should offer wonderful food with wonderful service.
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Synonyms:
adverb
Very well.
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Synonyms:
noun
(military, nautical, historical) A ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gun decks.
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First-rate Sentence Examples

  • The following list is intended to include those books only which are of first-rate importance.

  • They are memorable occasions with first-rate speakers, properly run but not solemn.

  • The island is under the rule of the admiralty, and was likened by Darwin to "a huge ship kept in first-rate order."

  • Buffalo from its position at the eastern limit of deep draught lake navigation is a city of first rate commercial importance.

  • The campaigns of 1462-6364, though full of incident and bloodshed, were not of first-rate political importance.

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