First-rate /(fẽrst"rāt`)/
First·-rate
First-rate
a.
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Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation.
Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German.
Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability.
First-rate
n.
- A war vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful class. (Naut.)
first-rate
adj.
- of the highest quality; as, a first-rate reporter.