FIRST RATE meaning: Top quality, best in class

We found 29 dictionaries that define the word first rate:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

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
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First-rate, first-rate: Wordnik
first-rate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
first-rate, first rate: Wiktionary
first-rate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
first-rate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
first-rate: Infoplease Dictionary
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first-rate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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First-rate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
first-rate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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First-rate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
first-rate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
FIRST RATE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
first-rate: FreeDictionary.org
first-rate: Mnemonic Dictionary
first-rate: TheFreeDictionary.com
first rate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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first-rate: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (First rate)

▸ adjective: Alternative spelling of first-rate [(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.]
▸ noun: Alternative spelling of first-rate [(UK, military, nautical, historical) A first-rate ship of the line.]

Similar:

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

Opposite:

second rate, inferior, subpar, mediocre, low-quality

Types:

excellent, superb, wonderful, great, good, nice, acceptable, satisfactory, mediocre, more...

Phrases:

first rate exceptionally good, more...

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