"first-rate" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: en-au-first rate.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} first-rate (not comparable)
  1. (UK, military, nautical, historical) 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. Tags: UK, historical, not-comparable Categories (topical): Military, Nautical
    Sense id: en-first-rate-en-adj-PbRDHEd3 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 79 6 15 Topics: government, military, nautical, politics, transport, war
  2. (idiomatic) Superb, exceptional; of the best sort; very high quality. Tags: idiomatic, not-comparable Translations (superb, exceptional): файны (fajny) (Belarusian), першакласны (pjeršaklasny) (Belarusian), 最佳 (zuìjiā) (Chinese Mandarin), 第一流的 (dìyīliú de) (Chinese Mandarin), 頂呱呱 (Chinese Mandarin), 顶呱呱 (dǐngguāguā) (Chinese Mandarin), 頭等 (Chinese Mandarin), 头等 (tóuděng) (Chinese Mandarin), erinomainen (Finnish), de premier choix (French), erstklassig (German), 一流の (ichiryū no) (alt: いちりゅうの) (Japanese), prīmārius (Latin), прво́класен (prvóklasen) (Macedonian), de primeira classe (Portuguese), первокла́ссный (pervoklássnyj) (Russian), первосо́ртный (pervosórtnyj) (Russian), перворазря́дный (pervorazrjádnyj) (Russian), de primera (Spanish), excelente (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-first-rate-en-adj-nn6IF7CX Disambiguation of 'superb, exceptional': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: first rate Derived forms: first-rateness Related terms: a-number-one, fifth-rate, fourth-rate, second-rate, sixth-rate, third-rate, top notch, top of the line

Noun

Audio: en-au-first rate.ogg [Australia] Forms: first-rates [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} first-rate (plural first-rates)
  1. (UK, military, nautical, historical) A first-rate ship of the line. Tags: UK, historical Categories (topical): Military, Nautical Related terms: man-of-war, three-decker
    Sense id: en-first-rate-en-noun-DGJ9y3xh Categories (other): British English Topics: government, military, nautical, politics, transport, war
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: first rate

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "nautical",
        "politics",
        "transport",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-first rate.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/67/En-au-first_rate.ogg/En-au-first_rate.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/En-au-first_rate.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "first rate"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "first-rate"
  ],
  "word": "first-rate"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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