How to pronounce “first-rate”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• (UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having at least 100 guns across three gun decks, a complement of 850–875, and weighing approximately 2,500 tons burthen.
• (idiomatic) Superb, exceptional; of the best sort; very high quality.
• [Noun]
• (UK, military, nautical, historical) A first-rate ship of the line.

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