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Superior vs First-rate - What's the difference?

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Superior is a related term of first-rate.


As adjectives the difference between superior and first-rate

is that superior is higher in quality while first-rate is (military|nautical|historical) describing a ship of the line in the british navy that had over 100 guns on three gundecks.

As nouns the difference between superior and first-rate

is that superior is a person of higher rank or quality while first-rate is (military|nautical|historical) a ship of the line in the british navy that had over 100 guns on three gun decks.

superior

English

Alternative forms

* superiour (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Higher in quality.
  • Higher in rank.
  • * , chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}
  • More comprehensive, as a term in classification.
    • A genus is superior to a species.
  • Located above.
    • the superior''' jaw; the '''superior part of an image
  • # (botany) Above the ovary; said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it.
  • # (botany) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem; posterior.
  • # (botany) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending; said of the radicle.
  • # (typography) Printed in superscript.
  • a superior figure or letter
  • Greater or better than average; extraordinary.
  • Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; with to .
  • * Spectator
    • There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.

    Usage notes

    * Superior and inferior are generally followed by to; than is sometimes used mistakenly.

    Antonyms

    * (l)

    Coordinate terms

    *

    Derived terms

    * superiorness

    Related terms

    * superiority

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person of higher rank or quality.
  • The senior person in a monastic community.

    • Related terms

    * (l) * (l)

    External links

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    first-rate

    English

    (wikipedia first-rate)

    Noun

  • (military, nautical, historical) A ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gun decks

    • Adjective

  • (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.
  • * (Matthew Arnold)
    • Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , 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.}}

    See also

    * second-rate * third-rate * fourth-rate