first class

Definitions

1. first gear (lowest gear in a motor vehicle)
2. premier rank.
3. The third year of primary school, following after the junior and senior infant levels.
   Ireland
4. feminine singular of primero
5. One of two classes of city government in the U.S. state of Kentucky, in which cities elect a mayor and aldermen.
   US

Equivalents

Examples

“sat in first class; attained first class in the Boy Scouts”

“In comparing these services with the exclusive trains-de-luxe of former days, however, it must be remembered that when the original first class was abolished on the Continent and second and third class were promoted to first and second respectively, it meant a considerable reduction in first class fares.”

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