first-class

Speech parts

1. first-class - Noun

2. first-class - Adjective

3. first-class - Adverb

4. first-class - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

first class

Synonyms

excellent superior elite outstanding splendid first-rate top-notch world-class high-class top-class supreme bonnie sterling brill prime
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Antonyms

bush bad worst deficient awful bastard
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Hypernyms

mail accommodation superiority high quality

Hyponyms

correspondence

Examples

Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence. Wynton Marsalis

Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out. Alan Kay

It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems. Gregory Bateson

The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted. Jerry Goldsmith

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. Richard Strauss

I believe as long as we allow conditions to exist that make for second-class citizens, we are making of ourselves less than first-class citizens. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Close letter words and terms

first-born children first-chance exception first-chop first-class car first-class carriage first-class citizen