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First class

noun

The highest rank in a classification.

Mail that includes letters and postcards and packages sealed against inspection. Synonyms: 1st-class mail, 1st class, first-class mail.

The most expensive accommodations on a ship or train or plane.

adverb

By first class conveyance; with first class accommodations.

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"First class" Quotes from Famous Books

... contribution of Ohio to the scholarship of the East is Professor W. M. Sloane, now of Princeton University, but by birth of Jefferson County. He must rank by his "Life of Napoleon" among the American historians of the first class. He is of Scotch Calvinistic ancestry, and the ...

— Stories Of Ohio - 1897 • William Dean Howells

... had no time to think of the chapel service; he had five minutes in which to get to his first class, and the building was across the campus, a good two minutes' walk. He patted his cap to be sure that it was firmly on the back of his head, clutched his note-book, and ran as hard as he could go, the strolling upper-classmen, ...

— The Plastic Age • Percy Marks

... The first class (those compounds not containing nitrogen) comprise the wood, starch, gum, sugar, and fatty matter which constitute the greater part of all plants, also the acids which are found in sour fruits, etc. Various as are all of ...

— The Elements of Agriculture - A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools • George E. Waring

... close to more and more wonderful forms of luxury by money. The urban poor keep out of the breadline by money. The middle-class know that with a little more money they may expect to join the first class and with a little less they may be forced into the second. Money seems the one thing of power. Newspapers, street discussions, and public opinion, for the most part, encourage the belief in the omnipotence ...

— Rural Problems of Today • Ernest R. Groves

... be permitted to describe the day of a Philadelphian lady of the first class, and the inference I would draw from it ...

— Domestic Manners of the Americans • Fanny Trollope

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