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Meanings of first rank in English

Russian
первое место
Spanish
primer lugar
Catalan
primera plaça

First in rank.

первое место
Synonyms
Examples for "first place"
Examples for "first place"
1
But I thought to ask him the question in the first place.
Burglars can't be choosers
2
In the first place, I have not the means; in the second-
Verner's Pride
3
The hardest part, however, can be identifying abuse in the first place.
The Guardian
4
Maybe it was the first place I saw on my way home.
Guns will keep us together
5
Another strategy is to avoid the fees in the first place-ifpossible.
Reuters
Usage of first rank in English
1
These be the ships appointed for the first rank of the vanguard:
Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 / Publications of the Navy Reco...
2
He cites five of these, and in the first rank the Atlantidæ.
Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men / First Series
3
The bravest men, the most gallant horses, fell in the first rank.
Waverley Novels — Volume 12
4
The Preludes are, in their aphoristic brevity, masterpieces of the first rank.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
5
I will give to him the first rank among the very first.
Folk Tales from the Russian
6
The first rank had now reached the spot, but still Jacques waited.
Fighting in France
7
To be a Senator of the first rank requires very different qualities.
Senator North
8
Between times they tried to find a dancer of the first rank.
Musical Memories
9
The first rank of militiamen went down in a storm of gunfire.
Mech
10
By this token, Schulman was a civilizing agent of the first rank.
The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)
11
Astolphe was supposed to be a scientific man of the first rank.
Two Poets
12
Minnelli was made the first rank of Chevalier, or knight, in 1987.
Reuters
13
I don't think that he is a painter of the first rank.
The American
14
Here again he puts the influence of Natural Selection in the first rank.
Darwin and Modern Science
15
Amongst talents cultivated in these young girls, music is in the first rank.
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 07
16
As a sporting terrier the Bedlington holds a position in the first rank.
Dogs and All about Them
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