| Library / English Dictionary |
FIRST-CLASS
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very good; of the highest quality
Example:
a first-class mind
Synonyms:
excellent; fantabulous; first-class; ripping; splendid
Classified under:
Similar:
superior (of high or superior quality or performance)
Context examples:
It will be a first-class milk ranch—everything complete.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And, since first-class magazines always paid on acceptance, there was a check inside.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Also, he learned from the item that first-class papers paid a minimum of ten dollars a column.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The worst of it is that the poor boy will keep on this way until he deteriorates into a first-class newspaper man and also a first-class scoundrel.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He anchored his faith to that, and was confident that the really first-class magazines would pay an unknown writer at least an equal rate, if not a better one.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The Transcontinental sold for twenty-five cents, and its dignified and artistic cover proclaimed it as among the first-class magazines.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He was cheered to read in Book News, in a paragraph on the payment of magazine writers, not that Rudyard Kipling received a dollar per word, but that the minimum rate paid by first-class magazines was two cents a word.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
