Category:First-rate

First"-rate`, a.

Defn: Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates. . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett (Thucyd).

first-rate First"-rate`, n. (Naut.)

Defn: A war vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful class.