FIRST-CLASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does first-class mean? 

• FIRST-CLASS (adjective)
  The adjective FIRST-CLASS has 1 sense:

1. very good; of the highest quality

  Familiarity information: FIRST-CLASS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIRST-CLASS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very good; of the highest quality

Synonyms:

excellent; fantabulous; first-class; ripping; splendid

Context example:

a first-class mind

Similar:

superior (of high or superior quality or performance)

 Context examples 

But the thing was, how to get into the first-class magazines.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

With that he flourished off the contents of his little tin pot, as if he had made the voyage, and had passed a first-class examination before the highest naval authorities.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The smith, on the other hand, assumed the obsolete attitude which Humphries and Mendoza introduced, but which had not for ten years been seen in a first-class battle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How would Lausanne do, my dear Watson—first-class tickets and all expenses paid on a princely scale?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The second first-class carriage from the front will be reserved for us.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is a first-class, up-to-date burgling kit, with nickel-plated jemmy, diamond-tipped glass-cutter, adaptable keys, and every modern improvement which the march of civilization demands.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Offer it to the first-class houses.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was not, however, until we were all in a first-class carriage and well started upon our journey to Birmingham that I was able to learn what the trouble was which had driven him to Sherlock Holmes.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The first-class magazines did not pay on acceptance, and they paid well.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And so it happened that an hour or so later I found myself in the corner of a first-class carriage flying along en route for Exeter, while Sherlock Holmes, with his sharp, eager face framed in his ear-flapped travelling-cap, dipped rapidly into the bundle of fresh papers which he had procured at Paddington.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)