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View synonyms for first-rate

first-rate

[ furst-reyt ]

adjective

  1. excellent; superb.
  2. of the highest rank, rate, or class.


adverb

  1. very well.

first-rate

adjective

  1. of the best or highest rated class or quality
  2. informal.
    very good; excellent


adverb

  1. not_standard.
    very well; excellently

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Word History and Origins

Origin of first-rate1

First recorded in 1660–70

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Example Sentences

Newsday: “Thoroughly researched, written with intelligence, sympathy and grace, it is a model of first-rate literary biography.”

Yellen, many believe, is the perfect choice, a first-rate academic whose sense of timing is exquisite and nuanced.

You can have a first-rate mind, but if the neurology is skewed, the thinking will also be skewed.

Elementary is first-rate American television in what is being called the “procedural” tradition.

He has had chores, he knows how to cook, how to iron, how to be a first-rate gardening assistant, and much more.

However, I am bound to admit that it is a first-rate country for sport—also for killing Englishmen.

And then at last the Pupil if he possesses a first-rate cramming memory might answer questions on it.

I presume you know that Maria Theresa was a first-rate soldier; or, at least, she had the happy art of finding them.

We find it was a town hand, said Blathers, continuing his report; for the style of work is first-rate.

He frequented the Italian Opera, which was his sole opportunity of hearing a good orchestra, chorus, and first-rate soloists.

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