first class

Offering the most comfortable and expensive seats or rooms for travellers.

• We bought first-class tickets.
• The first-class cabin has wider seats.
• Only first-class passengers can use this lounge.

Common phrases: first class ticket, first class cabin

Of the highest quality or in the highest group of a system.

• The hotel offers first-class service.
• She earned a first-class degree.
• Their work has always been first class.

Similar words: top-quality, excellent, first-rate

Opposites: poor

Common phrases: first class service, first class degree

Belonging to a postal service intended to deliver letters faster than a lower service.

• I need a first-class stamp.
• She sent the letter by first-class post.
• Does this envelope need first-class postage?

Common phrases: first class stamp, first class mail

Extremely good or enjoyable.

• The whole evening was first class.
• We had a first-class holiday together.
• That meal was absolutely first class.

Similar words: great, excellent, wonderful

Opposites: awful

Common phrases: first class holiday, first class evening

Relating to officially recognized high-level cricket matches lasting several days.

• He plays first-class cricket.
• She scored her first century in a first-class match.
• His first-class career lasted twenty years.

Common phrases: first class cricket, first class match

Able to be stored, passed, and used like other values in a computer program.

• This language supports first-class functions.
• First-class objects can be stored in variables.
• The tutorial shows how to pass first-class functions as arguments.

Common phrases: first class functions, first class objects

The highest category or rank in a system, including the most expensive travel category.

• Our seats are in first class.
• The guard moved us into first class.
• He reached First Class in the Scouts last year.

Similar words: top rank, highest category

Common phrases: in first class, into first class

In Ireland, the third year of primary school, after the two infant years.

• Her son is in first class.
• After senior infants, the children start first class.
• Their first class has twenty pupils this year.

Common phrases: in first class, start first class