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/ ˈfɜrstˈreɪt / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective excellent; superb.
of the highest rank, rate, or class.
Origin of first-rate First recorded in 1660–70
Words nearby first-rate first post, first principle, first quantum number, first quarter, first quartile, first-rate , First Reader, first reading, first refusal, First Reich, First Republic
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Example sentences from the Web for first-rate Newsday: “Thoroughly researched, written with intelligence, sympathy and grace, it is a model of first-rate literary biography.”
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Yellen, many believe, is the perfect choice, a first-rate academic whose sense of timing is exquisite and nuanced.
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You can have a first-rate mind, but if the neurology is skewed, the thinking will also be skewed.
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Elementary is first-rate American television in what is being called the “procedural” tradition.
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He has had chores, he knows how to cook, how to iron, how to be a first-rate gardening assistant, and much more.
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Commercially this was of first-rate importance, while politically it counterbalanced the alliance of the Bourbon courts.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. | William Hunt
Just when a fellow expects to have a first-rate time, she puts up something that knocks it out.
Dorothy Dale's Camping Days | Margaret Penrose
The Russians might as well attempt to suspend a first-rate line-of-battle ship with all its guns and stores.
With the World's Great Travellers, Volume IV | Various
So few people were civilised, and they, like the first-rate works of art, were mostly French.
Crome Yellow | Aldous Huxley
A "square" meal is his usual phrase for a full or first-rate one.
Across America | James F. Rusling
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British Dictionary definitions for first-rate adjective of the best or highest rated class or quality
informal very good; excellent
adverb not standard very well; excellently
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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