first-rate

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   quite well, healthy, or ready-to-go

   I don't feel first-rate today.

2. 2
   adj

   Superb, exceptional; of the best sort; very high quality.

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

3. 3
   adj

   of the highest quality

4. 4
   adj

   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.

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