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First class

noun

The highest rank in a classification.

Mail that includes letters and postcards and packages sealed against inspection. Synonyms: 1st-class mail, 1st class, first-class mail.

The most expensive accommodations on a ship or train or plane.

adverb

By first class conveyance; with first class accommodations.

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"First class" Quotes from Famous Books

... built at Bremerhaven in 1872-73, of the best oak, for the share-company 'Ishafvet,' and under special inspection. It has twelve years' first class 3/3 I.I. Veritas, measures 357 register tons gross, or 299 net. It was built and used for whale-fishing in the North Polar Sea, and strengthened in every way necessary and commonly used for that purpose. ...

— The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II • A.E. Nordenskieold

... and waistcoats. Socks, too, are things that the young men display considerable enterprise in. I was tempted myself this afternoon by a shop window full of really remarkably chaste hosiery—pale green with stripes! you'd look first class in them. I came to the conclusion at last that perhaps I was hardly young enough for them yet; but I invested in half a dozen ties of ...

— The Prodigal Father • J. Storer Clouston

... full of beautiful and striking passages, but it does not place the author in the first rank of dramatic writers. But if Mr. Coleridge's works do not place him in that rank, they injure instead of conveying a just idea of the man, for he himself is certainly in the first class of general intellect. ...

— The Spirit of the Age - Contemporary Portraits • William Hazlitt

... than the offender form the first class; offences against individuals, or private offences, or private extra-regarding offences. The second class is formed by semi-public offences, i.e., not against assignable individuals, nor the community at large, but a separable group in the community, e.g., a class ...

— The World's Greatest Books--Volume 14--Philosophy and Economics • Various

... founded New England. They built towns and almost immediately developed a profitable trade and manufacture. With a goodly sprinkling of university men among them, they soon had a college of their own. Indeed, Harvard graduated its first class as ...

— Our Foreigners - A Chronicle of Americans in the Making • Samuel P. Orth

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