Designating a person or thing of more exalted status than another (or others) of the same kind; of relatively high status, quality, or importance…

That is before another in position, order, or rank; esp. of an animal's limbs or a part of the body: Front. Obsolete. (Cf. farther, adj. 1.)

Higher in rank, status, position, or office; having more authority; higher-ranking, senior.

Superior in rank, position, or power (to someone or something else); of a higher order.

Relating to precedence in social matters. Obsolete. rare.

At the higher end of a (social) scale; superior, of a high quality; ‘up-market’.