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obliging

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??bla?d????/
  • Rhymes: -a?d???
  • Hyphenation: ob?lig?ing

Adjective

obliging (comparative more obliging, superlative most obliging)

  1. Happy and ready to do favours for others.

Synonyms

  • accommodating, willing

Derived terms

  • obligingly
  • obligingness

Translations

Verb

obliging

  1. present participle of oblige

Noun

obliging (plural obligings)

  1. The imposition of an obligation.
    • 1840, Alexander MacDonald, Summary of the Catholic Religion
      Many were the finings, and excommunications, and the obligings to do penances, that took place at this time.

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first-rate

English

Noun

first-rate (plural first-rates)

  1. (military, nautical, historical) A ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gun decks

Adjective

first-rate

  1. (military, nautical, historical) Describing a ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gundecks.
  2. (by extension) Exceptionally good.
    • 1867, Matthew Arnold, On the Study of Celtic Literature
      Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German.

Translations

See also

  • second-rate
  • third-rate
  • fourth-rate

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