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View definitions for first rate

first rate

adjective as in prize

adjective as in sterling

adjective as in boss

adjective as in ace

adjective as in tiptop

adjective as in top-drawer

adjective as in tiptop

adjective as in topnotch

adjective as in blue-ribbon

adjective as in first-class/first-rate

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Example Sentences

Newsday: “Thoroughly researched, written with intelligence, sympathy and grace, it is a model of first-rate literary biography.”

Yellen, many believe, is the perfect choice, a first-rate academic whose sense of timing is exquisite and nuanced.

You can have a first-rate mind, but if the neurology is skewed, the thinking will also be skewed.

Elementary is first-rate American television in what is being called the “procedural” tradition.

He has had chores, he knows how to cook, how to iron, how to be a first-rate gardening assistant, and much more.

However, I am bound to admit that it is a first-rate country for sport—also for killing Englishmen.

And then at last the Pupil if he possesses a first-rate cramming memory might answer questions on it.

I presume you know that Maria Theresa was a first-rate soldier; or, at least, she had the happy art of finding them.

We find it was a town hand, said Blathers, continuing his report; for the style of work is first-rate.

He frequented the Italian Opera, which was his sole opportunity of hearing a good orchestra, chorus, and first-rate soloists.

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On this page you'll find 110 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to first-rate, such as: excellent, exceptional, high-quality, marvelous, outstanding, and superb.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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