Definitions for first-rate

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Spelling: [furst-reyt]
IPA: /ˈfɜrstˈreɪt/

First-Rate is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 424 anagrams from letters in first-rate (-aefirrstt).

Definitions for first-rate

adverb

  1. very well.

adjective

  1. excellent; superb.
  2. of the highest rank, rate, or class.

Origin of first-rate

First recorded in 1660-70

Examples for first-rate

He had lost his parents, and was quite by himself, and a first-rate workman.

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

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

Camped on east side of the sand-hills, with first-rate feed for the horses.

There is a first-rate hotel close handy, where I sometimes dine.

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

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

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

He went all over me, taking up a collection, and did first-rate.

Nelson said of him with truth, upon this occasion, that he was a first-rate general.

Word Value for first-rate
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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