FIRST-RATE: Meaning and related words

We found 26 dictionaries that define the word first-rate:

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first-rate: Merriam-Webster
first-rate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
first-rate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
first-rate, first-rate: Collins English Dictionary
first-rate: Vocabulary.com
First-rate, first-rate: Wordnik
first-rate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
first-rate: Wiktionary
first-rate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
first-rate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
first-rate: Infoplease Dictionary
First-rate, first-rate: Dictionary.com
first-rate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
First-rate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
First-rate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
first-rate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
First-rate: Rhymezone
First-rate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
first-rate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
first-rate: FreeDictionary.org
first-rate: Mnemonic Dictionary
first-rate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  (UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having at least 100 guns across three gun decks, a complement of 850–875, and weighing approximately 2,500 tons burthen.
▸ adjective:  (idiomatic) Superb, exceptional; of the best sort; very high quality.
▸ noun:  (UK, military, nautical, historical) A first-rate ship of the line.

Similar:

ace, crack, tiptop, very well, topnotch, tops, superior, super, a-one, second-rate, more...

Opposite:

second-rate, third-rate, fourth-rate, fifth-rate, inferior

Types:

excellent, superb, wonderful, fantastic, great, marvelous, splendid, terrific, more...

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