world-class

or world·class

[ wurld-klas, -klahs ]

/ ˈwɜrldˈklæs, -ˈklɑs /

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adjective

ranking among the world's best; outstanding: a world-class orchestra.

attracting or comprising world-class players, performers, etc.: a world-class tennis tournament.

Informal. being a notorious example of its kind: a world-class slob.

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Origin of world-class

First recorded in 1945–50

Words nearby world-class

World Bank Group, world beat, worldbeater, world-building, world car, world-class, World Communion Sunday, World Council of Churches, World Court, World Cup, World Day of Prayer

How to use world-class in a sentence

I was drawn to The Class for different reasons—chiefly, the pipe dream of achieving a tighter and tauter backside.
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The world that Black Dynamite lives in is not the most PC place to be in.
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Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.
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Have a look at this telling research from Pew on blasphemy and apostasy laws around the world.
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Descending the Alps to the east or south into Piedmont, a new world lies around and before you.
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All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.
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There seems something in that also which I could spare only very reluctantly from a new Bible in the world.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
That it is a reasonable and proper thing to ask our statesmen and politicians: what is going to happen to the world?
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The "new world" was really found in the wonder-years of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock

British Dictionary definitions for world-class

world-class

adjective

of or denoting someone with a skill or attribute that puts him or her in the highest class in the worlda world-class swimmer

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world-class

or world·class

Origin of world-class

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