Definitions for: First-rate


[adv] quite well; "she doesn't feel first-rate today"
[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"



Webster (1913) Definition: First"-rate`, a.
Of the highest excellence; pre["e]minent in quality, size, or
estimation.

Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the
German. --M. Arnold.

Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. --Jowett
(Thucyd).


First"-rate`, n. (Naut.)
A war vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful class.

Synonyms: ace, A-one, crack, super, superior, tiptop, topnotch, tops(p), very well

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