first-rate

See also: first rate

English

Noun

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

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.
   • Matthew Arnold

     Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:

     He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.

Translations

exceptionally good

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 最佳 (zh) (zuìjiā), 第一流的 (zh) (dìyīliú de), 頂呱呱／顶呱呱 (zh) (dǐngguāguā), 顶呱呱 (zh) (dǐngguāguā), 頭等／头等 (zh) (tóuděng), 头等 (zh) (tóuděng)

• Finnish: erinomainen (fi)
• French: de premier choix
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: erstklassig (de)
• Japanese: 一流の (ja) (いちりゅうの, ichiryū no)
• Latin: prīmārius
• Russian: первокла́ссный (ru) (pervoklássnyj), первосо́ртный (ru) (pervosórtnyj), перворазря́дный (ru) (pervorazrjádnyj)
• Spanish: de primera clase, excelente (es)

See also

• second-rate
• third-rate
• fourth-rate