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first-class

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first-class (fûrstkls)
adj.
1. Constituting or belonging to the first, highest, or best group in a system of classification: a first-class hotel; first-class mail.
2. Of the foremost excellence or highest quality; first-rate: a first-class mind.

first class adv.
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Adj.1.first-classfirst-class - very good;of the highest quality; "made an excellent speech"; "the school has excellent teachers"; "a first-class mind"
superior - of high or superior quality or performance; "superior wisdom derived from experience"; "superior math students"
Translations
Spanish first-class [ˈfəːstklɑːs] adjde primera clase;
first-class ticket (RAIL etc) → billete m or (LAM) boleto de primera clase;
first-class mail → correo de primera clase

French first-class [ˈfəːstˈklɑːs] first adj [ticket etc] → de première classe (= excellent); excellent(e)exceptionnel(le); [post] → en tarif prioritaire
German first-class [ˈfəːstˈklɑːs] first adjerstklassig;
(carriage, ticket) → Erste(r)-Klasse-;
(post) → bevorzugt befördert
adv (travel, send) → erster Klasse

Italian first-class [ˈfəːstˈklɑːs] adjdi prima classe

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Two first-class tickets for Paris having been speedily purchased, Mr.
Sometimes, in place of the criticism, the first-class daily gives you what it thinks is a gay and chipper essay--about ancient Grecian funeral customs, or the ancient Egyptian method of tarring a mummy, or the reasons for believing that some of the peoples who existed before the flood did not approve of cats.
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.
 
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