first class

1. 1.

   by first class conveyance; with first class accommodations

   “we always travel first class”

Questions about first class

What does first class mean?

first class means "the highest rank in a classification". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for first class?

Close synonyms include 1st class, first-class mail, 1st-class mail. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is first class a common word?

first class is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.