first-rate

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Noun [edit]

first-rate (plural first-rates)

  1. (military, nautical, historical) A ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gun decks

Adjective [edit]

first-rate

  1. (military, nautical, historical) Describing a ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gundecks
  2. (by extension) Exceptionally good
    • M. Arnold
      Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German.

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exceptionally good

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