first classadjective
also first-class uk/ˌfɜːst ˈklɑːs/us/ˌfɝːst ˈklæs/first class adjective (EXCELLENT)
excellent:
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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:
relating to the service for sending post that people usually use:
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- 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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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:
UK If you send something first class, you send it by the usual post service:
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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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first classnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌfɜːst ˈklɑːs/us/ˌfɝːst ˈklæs/the best and most expensive seats on a plane or in a train:
UK the post service that most people use for sending letters, etc.:
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- 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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