first-rate

Speech parts

1. first-rate - Noun

2. first-rate - Adjective

3. first-rate - Adverb

4. first-rate - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of the highest excellence; preeminent in quality, size, or estimation.

A war vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful class.

Alternative names

first rate

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Examples

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. Judy Garland

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts. Anton Chekhov

I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking. A. A. Milne

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. F. Scott Fitzgerald

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. Doris Lessing

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school. Evelyn Waugh

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