Word Meanings - FIRSTRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett (Thucyd).

• Germanism
  An idiom of the German language.
• Contemporary
  Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.
• Germanium
  A rare element, recently discovered (1885), in a silver ore (argyrodite) at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white metal, chemically intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, resembles tin, and is in general identical with the predicted ekas
• Estimation
  The act of estimating.
• Germanization
  The act of Germanizing.
• Excellence
  The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
• Germanized
  of Germanize
• Germanizing
  of Germanize
• Germanize
  To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society.
• First-class
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope.
• First-hand
  Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent.
• Firstling
  The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock.
• FIRSTCLASS
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended for passengers wh

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