First-rate vs Superb - What's the difference?
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(military, nautical, historical) A ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gun decks
(military, nautical, historical) Describing a ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gundecks.
(by extension) Exceptionally good.
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, passage=He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
First-rate; of the highest quality; exceptionally good.
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
Grand; magnificent; august; stately.
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(lb) Haughty.
*1858 , (Julia Kavanagh), Adèle, a Tale: Volume 2 (p.235):
*:A remark which Isabella received with a superb curl of the lip, but at the same time, and to her brother's infinite relief, she walked away.
First-rate is a related term of superb.
As adjectives the difference between first-rate and superb
is that first-rate is (military|nautical|historical) describing a ship of the line in the british navy that had over 100 guns on three gundecks while superb is .As a noun first-rate
is (military|nautical|historical) a ship of the line in the british navy that had over 100 guns on three gun decks.first-rate
English
(wikipedia first-rate)Noun
Adjective
- Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German.