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FIRST WATER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does first water mean?
• FIRST WATER (noun)
The noun FIRST WATER has 1 sense:
1. the highest quality gems
Familiarity information: FIRST WATER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The highest quality gems
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("first water" is a kind of...):
high quality; superiority (the quality of being superior)
Context examples
He’s a glutton of the first water.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This was manifestly a prig of the first water, and there was no use arguing with him.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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