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earliest
Superlative form of early: most early
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  1. Superlative form of early: most early
beginning
(Informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.
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  1. (Informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.
original
Not derived from something else; fresh and unusual:
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  1. Not derived from something else; fresh and unusual:
  2. Being the source from which a copy, reproduction, or translation is made.
  3. Preceding all others in time; first:
top
Of or having to do with the Top 40 or the kind of popular music they represent
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  1. Of or having to do with the Top 40 or the kind of popular music they represent
  2. Of the highest degree, quality, rank, or amount:
  3. Situated at the top:
choice
Of the US Government grade of meat higher than good and lower than prime.
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  1. Of the US Government grade of meat higher than good and lower than prime.
  2. Selected with care; well-chosen:
  3. Of very fine quality:
superior
(Printing) Set above the main line of type.
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  1. (Printing) Set above the main line of type.
  2. Presuming to be or suggesting that one is morally or socially better than others; disdainful or supercilious.
  3. Situated nearer the top of the head.
choice
Of the US Government grade of meat higher than good and lower than prime.
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  1. Of the US Government grade of meat higher than good and lower than prime.
  2. Selected with care; well-chosen:
  3. Of very fine quality:
fine
Consisting of very small particles; not coarse:
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  1. Consisting of very small particles; not coarse:
  2. Used as an intensive:
  3. Excellent in character or ability:
first-class
Constituting or belonging to the first, highest, or best group in a system of classification:
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  1. Constituting or belonging to the first, highest, or best group in a system of classification:
  2. Of the highest class, rank, excellence, etc.; of the best quality
  3. (Programming) Of, or relating to a treatment like that for a first-class citizen.
select
Singled out in preference; chosen:
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  1. Singled out in preference; chosen:
  2. Of special quality or value; choice:
  3. Choice; excellent; outstanding
superior
Refusing to give in to or be affected by
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  1. Refusing to give in to or be affected by
  2. Showing a feeling of being better than others; haughty
  3. Presuming to be or suggesting that one is morally or socially better than others; disdainful or supercilious.
ace
A trademark for an elastic bandage.
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  1. A trademark for an elastic bandage.
  2. Top-notch; first-rate.
  3. (Informal) First-rate; expert
banner
Unusually good; outstanding:
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  1. Unusually good; outstanding:
  2. Exceptional; very good.
blue-ribbon
(Informal) Preeminent or outstanding of its kind
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  1. (Informal) Preeminent or outstanding of its kind
  2. Designating or of a panel made up of persons specially selected as for their expertise
brag
(Archaic) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
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  1. (Archaic) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
  2. Exceptionally fine.
  3. (Now Rare) First-rate; excellent
capital
First and foremost; principal:
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  1. First and foremost; principal:
  2. Most important or most serious; principal; chief
  3. Of or relating to financial assets, especially being or related to those financial assets that add to the net worth of a business:
champion
Superior to all others:
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  1. Superior to all others:
  2. Holding first place or prize:
excellent
(Obs.) Excelling; surpassing
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  1. (Obs.) Excelling; surpassing
  2. (Archaic) Being so to an extreme degree.
  3. Of the highest or finest quality; exceptionally good for its kind:
fine
Excellent in character or ability:
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  1. Excellent in character or ability:
  2. Superior in quality; better than average; excellent; very good
  3. Able to make or detect effects of great subtlety or precision; sensitive:
first-class
(Programming) Of, or relating to a treatment like that for a first-class citizen.
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  1. (Programming) Of, or relating to a treatment like that for a first-class citizen.
  2. Constituting or belonging to the first, highest, or best group in a system of classification:
  3. Of the highest class, rank, excellence, etc.; of the best quality
first-rate
Foremost in quality, rank, or importance.
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  1. Foremost in quality, rank, or importance.
  2. Of the highest class, rank, or quality; very good; excellent
quality
Of high quality
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  1. Of high quality
  2. Having a high degree of excellence:
splendid
Brilliant with light or color; radiant:
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  1. Brilliant with light or color; radiant:
  2. Imposing by reason of showiness or grandeur; magnificent:
  3. Very good; excellent; fine
superb
Majestic or magnificent:
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  1. Majestic or magnificent:
  2. Of unusually high quality; excellent:
  3. Extremely fine; excellent
superior
Showing a feeling of being better than others; haughty
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  1. Showing a feeling of being better than others; haughty
  2. Presuming to be or suggesting that one is morally or socially better than others; disdainful or supercilious.
  3. Of great value or excellence; extraordinary.
terrific
(Informal) Unusually fine, admirable, enjoyable, etc.
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  1. (Informal) Unusually fine, admirable, enjoyable, etc.
  2. Very good or fine; splendid:
  3. Unusually great in degree, intensity, severity, etc.
tiptop
(Informal) At the highest point of excellence, health, etc.
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  1. (Informal) At the highest point of excellence, health, etc.
  2. At the highest point, or top
  3. Excellent; first-rate:
top
Relating to, made up of, or broadcasting the Top 40:
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  1. Relating to, made up of, or broadcasting the Top 40:
  2. Of the highest degree, quality, rank, or amount:
  3. Of or having to do with the Top 40 or the kind of popular music they represent
a-one
(Informal) First-class; first-rate; superior
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  1. (Informal) First-class; first-rate; superior
  2. First-class; excellent.
bully
Dashing, hearty, or jolly
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  1. Dashing, hearty, or jolly
  2. Excellent; splendid:
  3. (Informal) Fine; very good
dandy
(Rare) Of or for a dandy; foppish
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  1. (Rare) Of or for a dandy; foppish
  2. Suggestive of or attired like a dandy; foppish.
  3. Fine; good.
great
(Informal) Excellent; splendid; fine
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  1. (Informal) Excellent; splendid; fine
  2. Being one generation removed from the relative specified. Often used in combination:
  3. Superior in quality or character; noble:
swell
Fashionably elegant; stylish.
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  1. Fashionably elegant; stylish.
  2. Excellent; wonderful:
  3. (Slang) First-rate; excellent
topflight
First-rate; excellent.
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  1. First-rate; excellent.
boss
First-rate; topnotch.
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  1. First-rate; topnotch.
  2. (Informal) Chief
  3. (Slang) Excellent; fine
capital
Of or relating to financial assets, especially being or related to those financial assets that add to the net worth of a business:
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  1. Of or relating to financial assets, especially being or related to those financial assets that add to the net worth of a business:
  2. Most important or most serious; principal; chief
  3. First and foremost; principal:
cardinal
Bright-red, like the robe of a cardinal
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  1. Bright-red, like the robe of a cardinal
  2. Of foremost importance; paramount:
  3. Of main importance; principal; chief
chief
Highest, as in rank or office; foremost
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  1. Highest, as in rank or office; foremost
  2. Highest in rank, authority, or office:
  3. Most important or significant; main; principal
first
Ranking before all others; foremost in rank, quality, importance, etc.; principal
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  1. Ranking before all others; foremost in rank, quality, importance, etc.; principal
  2. Corresponding in order to the number one.
  3. Ranking above all others, as in importance or quality; foremost:
foremost
More prominent or important than others, especially in position or rank:
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  1. More prominent or important than others, especially in position or rank:
  2. First in rank or importance; leading
key
Of crucial importance; significant:
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  1. Of crucial importance; significant:
  2. Controlling; essential; important
leading
Having a position in the lead; foremost:
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  1. Having a position in the lead; foremost:
  2. Principal; chief
  3. Ranking first.
main
Most important; principal.
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  1. Most important; principal.
  2. (Nautical) Connected to or located near the mainmast:
  3. Chief in size, extent, importance, etc.; principal; leading; specif., designating a large central unit on which subsidiaries or branches depend
major
Characterized by major intervals, scales, etc.
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  1. Characterized by major intervals, scales, etc.
  2. Designating a triad having intervals of a major third between the lower two pitches, and a minor third between the upper two pitches
  3. Equivalent to the distance between the tonic note and the second or third or sixth or seventh degrees of a major scale or mode:
number one
First in rank, order, or importance:
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  1. First in rank, order, or importance:
paramount
Highest in rank, power, or authority:
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  1. Highest in rank, power, or authority:
  2. Of chief concern or importance:
premier
First in status or importance; principal or chief:
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  1. First in status or importance; principal or chief:
primary
(Ornithology) Designating or of the large, stiff feathers on the last section, or hand, of a bird's wing
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  1. (Ornithology) Designating or of the large, stiff feathers on the last section, or hand, of a bird's wing
  2. Relating to the replacement of only one of several atoms or groups in a compound, such as an amine in which one valence of the functional group is taken by a carbon atom.
  3. First in importance; chief; principal; main
principal
Highest or among the highest in rank, authority, importance, degree, etc.
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  1. Highest or among the highest in rank, authority, importance, degree, etc.
  2. Of, relating to, or being financial principal, or a principal in a financial transaction.
  3. First or highest in rank or importance.
top
Of, situated at, or being the top; uppermost, highest, greatest, or foremost
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  1. Of, situated at, or being the top; uppermost, highest, greatest, or foremost
  2. Of the highest degree, quality, rank, or amount:
  3. Of or having to do with the Top 40 or the kind of popular music they represent
earliest
Superlative form of early: most early
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  1. Superlative form of early: most early
first
Happening or acting before all others; earliest
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  1. Happening or acting before all others; earliest
  2. Corresponding in order to the number one.
  3. Ranking above all others, as in importance or quality; foremost:
initial
Having to do with, indicating, or occurring at the beginning
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  1. Having to do with, indicating, or occurring at the beginning
  2. Of, relating to, or occurring at the beginning; first:
  3. Designating the first letter or letters of a word.
maiden
Of, characteristic of, or suitable for a maiden
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  1. Of, characteristic of, or suitable for a maiden
  2. Never having won a race
  3. First or earliest; inaugural
original
Not derived from something else; fresh and unusual:
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  1. Not derived from something else; fresh and unusual:
  2. Being the source from which a copy, reproduction, or translation is made.
  3. Having to do with an origin; first; earliest
pioneer
Leading the way; trailblazing:
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  1. Leading the way; trailblazing:
  2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of early settlers:
  3. Being one of the first of its kind
primary
Of or in the first stage of a sequence; elementary
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  1. Of or in the first stage of a sequence; elementary
  2. Referring to present or future time. Used as a collective designation for various present and future verb tenses in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit.
  3. Relating to the first set of teeth that develops in humans.
primordial
(Biol.) Earliest formed in the development of an organism, organ, structure, etc.; primitive
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  1. (Biol.) Earliest formed in the development of an organism, organ, structure, etc.; primitive
  2. Not derivative; fundamental; original
  3. Being or happening first in sequence of time; original.
original
Showing a marked departure from previous practice; new:
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  1. Showing a marked departure from previous practice; new:
  2. Not derived from something else; fresh and unusual:
  3. Preceding all others in time; first:
primary
(Linguis.) Having as its fundamental form a base or other element that cannot be broken down
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  1. (Linguis.) Having as its fundamental form a base or other element that cannot be broken down
  2. (Botany) Of, relating to, or derived from a primary meristem.
  3. Not derived from anything else; basic or original:
primitive
Characterized by simplicity or crudity; unsophisticated:
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  1. Characterized by simplicity or crudity; unsophisticated:
  2. Not derivative; primary; basic
  3. (Linguistics) Serving as the basis for derived or inflected forms:
bloom
A waxy or powdery whitish to bluish coating on the surface of certain plant parts, as on cabbage leaves or on a plum or grape.
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  1. A waxy or powdery whitish to bluish coating on the surface of certain plant parts, as on cabbage leaves or on a plum or grape.
  2. Flowers collectively, as of a plant
  3. A flower; blossom
blossom
The condition or time of flowering:
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  1. The condition or time of flowering:
  2. A flower or cluster of flowers.
  3. A flower or bloom, esp. of a fruit-bearing plant
efflorescence
A flowering; blooming
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  1. A flowering; blooming
  2. The powder or crust thus formed
  3. A whitish, powdery deposit on the surface of rocks or soil in dry regions. It is formed as mineral-rich water rises to the surface through capillary action and then evaporates. Efflorescence usually consists of gypsum, salt, or calcite.
florescence
A condition or period of great vigor.
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  1. A condition or period of great vigor.
  2. The time, or the condition of budding or flowering
  3. The act, condition, or period of blooming
flower
The reproductive structure of the seed-bearing plants known as angiosperms. A flower may contain up to four whorls or arrangements of parts: carpels, stamens, petals, and sepals. The female reproductive organs consist of one or more carpels . Each carpel includes an ovary, style, and stigma. A single carpel or a group of fused carpels is sometimes called a pistil. The male reproductive parts are the stamens, made up of a filament and anther. The reproductive organs may be enclosed in an inner whorl of petals and an outer whorl of sepals. Flowers first appeared over 120 million years ago and have evolved a great diversity of forms and coloration in response to the agents that pollinate them. Some flowers produce nectar to attract animal pollinators, and these flowers are often highly adapted to specific groups of pollinators. Flowers pollinated by moths, such as species of jasmine and nicotiana, are often pale and fragrant in order to be found in the evening, while those pollinated by birds, such as fuschias, are frequently red and odorless, since birds have good vision but a less developed sense of smell. Wind-pollinated flowers, such as those of oak trees or grass, are usually drab and inconspicuous.
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  1. The reproductive structure of the seed-bearing plants known as angiosperms. A flower may contain up to four whorls or arrangements of parts: carpels, stamens, petals, and sepals. The female reproductive organs consist of one or more carpels . Each carpel includes an ovary, style, and stigma. A single carpel or a group of fused carpels is sometimes called a pistil. The male reproductive parts are the stamens, made up of a filament and anther. The reproductive organs may be enclosed in an inner whorl of petals and an outer whorl of sepals. Flowers first appeared over 120 million years ago and have evolved a great diversity of forms and coloration in response to the agents that pollinate them. Some flowers produce nectar to attract animal pollinators, and these flowers are often highly adapted to specific groups of pollinators. Flowers pollinated by moths, such as species of jasmine and nicotiana, are often pale and fragrant in order to be found in the evening, while those pollinated by birds, such as fuschias, are frequently red and odorless, since birds have good vision but a less developed sense of smell. Wind-pollinated flowers, such as those of oak trees or grass, are usually drab and inconspicuous.
  2. A plant cultivated for its blossoms; flowering plant
  3. A blossom; bloom
flush
A sudden and rapid flow, as of water in washing out something; specif., the emptying and rinsing of a toilet bowl with a flow of water, etc.
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  1. A sudden and rapid flow, as of water in washing out something; specif., the emptying and rinsing of a toilet bowl with a flow of water, etc.
  2. A bird or flock of birds that has been frightened from cover.
  3. A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees etc.
fit
To make a place for
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  1. To make a place for
  2. To make suitable; adapt:
  3. To make or alter so as to be suitable or proper
fix
(--- Informal) To take revenge upon (someone); get even with.
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  1. (--- Informal) To take revenge upon (someone); get even with.
  2. (Informal, Dial.) To prepare or intend
  3. To make firm, stable, or secure
make
To rise or accumulate:
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  1. To rise or accumulate:
  2. To achieve, produce, or attain:
  3. To prepare; fix:
prepare
To equip or furnish with necessary provisions, accessories, etc.; fit out
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  1. To equip or furnish with necessary provisions, accessories, etc.; fit out
  2. (Music) To use (a dissonant tone) in preparation
  3. To make ready, usually for a specific purpose; make suitable; fit; adapt; train
ready
To cause to be ready.
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  1. To cause to be ready.
  2. To get or make ready; prepare
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  • Stop playing prime time TV.

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