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单词 first class
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first classadjective

also first-class uk/ˌfɜːst ˈklɑːs/us/ˌfɝːst ˈklæs/

first class adjective (EXCELLENT)

excellent:

She did a first-class job of decorating the living room.

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Extremely good

  • admirable
  • amazing
  • ask for sb/sth
  • award-winning
  • awesome
  • bowl
  • brilliant
  • incomparable
  • incredible
  • inspired
  • irreplaceable
  • life is just a bowl of cherries idiom
  • outstanding
  • parallel
  • sterling
  • superb
  • superlatively
  • supremacy
  • supreme
  • terrific

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first class adjective (QUALIFICATION)

used to refer to the best possible undergraduate university degree you can get in the UK and some other countries

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Qualifications: university & college

  • AB
  • associate's degree
  • BA
  • bachelor's degree
  • bed
  • BM
  • chartered
  • emerita
  • emeritus
  • fellowship
  • graduation
  • honorary
  • honors degree
  • honours degree
  • MB
  • MBA
  • MPhil
  • MSc
  • pass degree
  • summa cum laude

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first class adjective (MOST EXPENSIVE)

relating to the most expensive and highest quality service on a plane or train, or in a hotel:

a first-class ticket
first-class accommodation/travel

relating to the service for sending post that people usually use:

first-class mail/postage
How much is a first-class stamp?

More examples

  • They used to guarantee that a first-class letter would arrive the next day.
  • Would you like me to find you a seat in the first-class carriage?
  • "How can you call that a first-class service?" snorted one indignant customer.
  • We have first- and second-class accommodation on this flight.
  • It is worth paying extra for a first-class cabin, in my opinion.

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Travelling

  • backpacking
  • bum around (somewhere)
  • catch
  • connect
  • cover
  • cruise
  • destination
  • gad about/around (somewhere)
  • gallivant
  • have sth, will travel idiom
  • override
  • ply
  • road
  • roam
  • tootle
  • tourist class
  • travel
  • travelled
  • voyage
  • well travelled

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Communications - the postal system

first classadverb

uk/ˌfɜːst ˈklɑːs/us/ˌfɝːst ˈklæs/

If you travel first class in a train, aircraft, etc., you use the best and most expensive type of service:

She always travels first class.

UK If you send something first class, you send it by the usual post service:

How much more would it cost to send it first class?

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Travelling

  • backpacking
  • bum around (somewhere)
  • catch
  • connect
  • cover
  • cruise
  • destination
  • gad about/around (somewhere)
  • gallivant
  • have sth, will travel idiom
  • override
  • ply
  • road
  • roam
  • tootle
  • tourist class
  • travel
  • travelled
  • voyage
  • well travelled

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Communications - the postal system

first classnoun [ U ]

uk/ˌfɜːst ˈklɑːs/us/ˌfɝːst ˈklæs/

the best and most expensive seats on a plane or in a train:

Because of the delay, we were offered seats in first class.

UK the post service that most people use for sending letters, etc.:

First class costs more, but it will arrive tomorrow.

More examples

  • As usual, there is lots of room in first class.
  • I didn't realize I was in first class until the ticket inspector told me to move.

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Travelling

  • backpacking
  • bum around (somewhere)
  • catch
  • connect
  • cover
  • cruise
  • destination
  • gad about/around (somewhere)
  • gallivant
  • have sth, will travel idiom
  • override
  • ply
  • road
  • roam
  • tootle
  • tourist class
  • travel
  • travelled
  • voyage
  • well travelled

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Communications - the postal system

first classadjective

ukus

of excellent quality:

The work that she did on the project was first class.
He really is pre-eminent in the field and has built up a first-class business.

TRANSPORT relating to the highest level of service offered on a plane, train, etc.:

a first-class cabin/fare/seat, etc.

in the UK, relating to the fastest service for sending mail:

It is welcome news that first-class delivery has improved.
The cost of a first-class stamp is going up.

in the US, relating to the service used for sending letters, cards, and small packages:

He predicts first-class volume will decline by 20 percent by the year 2017 as fewer people sit down to write a letter.
Experts expect that the U.S. Postal Service soon will request a price increase for first-class letters.

used to describe the best possible degree you can get from a university in the UK:

A report showed that a first-class degree is worth, on average, 12% more in likely future earnings.

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business class noun
economy class
second-class adjective

first classadverb

ukus

TRANSPORT using the highest level of service offered:

fly/travel first class I fly business class; I don't fly first class.

using the fastest service for sending mail:

The minimum requirement is that certificates must be sent first class to the shareholder's registered address.

first classnoun [ U ]

ukus

the best seats, service, etc. on a plane, train, etc.:

I didn't see him on the flight because he was in first class.

in the UK, the fastest service for sending mail:

Always use first class for sending these documents.

in the US, the service for sending letters, cards and small packages

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