first class

premier rank.

Adjective

  1. Belonging to the best or top group in a system of classification.
    • That was a first class restaurant.
    • The admirable smoothness of the riding also reflected the greatest credit on those who, despite the difficulties caused by the shortage of men and materials, have succeeded in maintaining the track in such first-class...
  2. Of, or relating to the most luxurious and expensive class of accommodation on a train, ship, hotel, etc.
    • We travelled first class to New York.
  3. Of, or relating to a class of mail to be delivered before second class.
    • First class stamps are now more expensive.
  4. Great, very enjoyable.
    • - How was your holiday? - It was first class.
  5. Of or relating to a first class match.
  6. Of or relating to a treatment like that for a first-class object.
    • Java has no first-class functions, so function objects are usually expressed by an interface with a single method.

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Noun

  1. premier rank.
    • sat in first class; attained first class in the Boy Scouts
    • In comparing these services with the exclusive trains-de-luxe of former days, however, it must be remembered that when the original first class was abolished on the Continent and second and third class were promoted to...
  2. The third year of primary school, following after the junior and senior infant levels.
  3. One of two classes of city government in the U.S. state of Kentucky, in which cities elect a mayor and aldermen.

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