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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ace, A-one, crack, first-rate, super, tiptop, topnotch, top-notch, tops(p)adverb

    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"

  2. first-rate, very welladverb

    quite well

    "she doesn't feel first-rate today"

Wiktionary

  1. first-ratenoun

    A ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gun decks

  2. first-rateadjective

    Describing a ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gundecks

  3. first-rateadjective

    Exceptionally good

Wikipedia

  1. First-rate

    In the rating system of the British Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a first rate was the designation for the largest ships of the line. Originating in the Jacobean era with the designation of Ships Royal capable of carrying at least 400 men, the size and establishment of first-rates evolved over the following 250 years to eventually denote ships of the line carrying at least 80 guns across three gundecks. By the end of the eighteenth century, a first-rate carried no fewer than 100 guns and more than 850 crew, and had a measurement (burthen) tonnage of some 2,000 tons.

ChatGPT

  1. first-rate

    First-rate is a term used to describe something that is of the highest quality or excellence; it is the best or superior in its class or category. This can pertain to products, services, people, performances, or other aspects where quality or performance can be evaluated or ranked.

Webster Dictionary

  1. First-rateadjective

    of the highest excellence; preeminent in quality, size, or estimation

  2. First-ratenoun

    a war vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful class

Wikidata

  1. First-rate

    First rate was the designation used by the Royal Navy for its largest ships of the line. While the size and establishment of guns and men changed over the 250 years that the rating system held sway, from the early years of the 1700s the first rates comprised those ships mounting 100 guns or more on three gundecks. In the Nelsonic period, a first rate carried over 800 crew and displaced in excess of 2,000 long tons.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of first-rate in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of first-rate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of first-rate in a Sentence

  1. Wilmer Stith:

    If anything, it buys the Fed a little more time before the first rate hike. It puts September a little more in question but we still think they move in September.

  2. F. Scott Fitzgerald:

    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.

  3. Marco Rubio:

    I believe he is a first-rate con artist and is on the verge of taking over the party of Lincoln and Reagan.

  4. A. A. Milne:

    The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

  5. Andy Stefanelli:

    Dorian was one heck of a running back in high school, with Kendall you just kind of knew his sense for the game and just how he practiced and worked out. Everything he did was just first-rate.


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  • erstklassigGerman
  • 一流Japanese
  • первосо́ртный, первокла́ссный, перворазря́дныйRussian

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