First class (or 1st class, Firstclass) generally implies a high level of service, importance or quality. Specific uses of the term include:

Books and comics

* ''First Class'', a comic strip in ''The Dandy'' (1983-1998) * ''X-Men: First Class'' (comics)

Film and TV

* '' X-Men: First Class'', a 2011 film * ''First Class'' (game show), a UK game show * ''First Class'' (TV series), a Singaporean comedy

Music

Artists

The First Class The First Class were a British pop music studio-based group, put together by songwriter and record producer John Carter. They are best known for their hit song "Beach Baby," a top 20 hit in both the US and UK, and number one in Canada. Caree ...

, a British pop band formed in 1974

Albums

* ''1st Class'' (album), by Large Professor, 2002 *''First Class'', by

Billy Paul Paul Williams (December 1, 1934 – April 24, 2016), known professionally as Billy Paul, was an American soul music, soul singer, known for his 1972 Record chart, No. 1 single "Me and Mrs. Jones". His 1973 album and single ''War of the Gods (alb ...

, 1979 *''First Class'', by

Mickey Gilley Mickey Leroy Gilley (March 9, 1936 – May 7, 2022) was an American country music singer, businessman, actor, and musician. Among his hits are " Room Full of Roses", " Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time", and “ Lonely Nights”. ...

, 1977 *''First Class'', by

Claude Bolling Claude Bolling (10 April 1930 – 29 December 2020) was a French jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and occasional actor. Biography He was born in Cannes, France, and studied at the Nice Conservatory, and then in Paris. A child prodigy, by the ...

, 1991 *''First Class'', by

Debby Boone Deborah Anne Boone (born September 22, 1956) is an American singer, author, and actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit, " You Light Up My Life", which spent ten weeks at No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and led to her winning the G ...

, 1978

Songs

* "First Class" (song), by Jack Harlow, 2022 *"First Class", by Blueface from '' Find the Beat'', 2020 *"First Class", by Henry Rollins from ''

Big Ugly Mouth ''Big Ugly Mouth'' is the second live spoken word album by Henry Rollins, released in 1987 on Quarterstick Records. It was reissued with his first spoken word album, '' Short Walk On A Long Pier'', (1985) and new artwork on 2.13.61 Records in ...

'', 1987 *"First Class", by Khruangbin from ''

Mordechai Mordecai (; also Mordechai; , IPA: ) is one of the main personalities in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. He is the cousin and guardian of Esther, who became queen of Persia under the reign of Ahasuerus (Xerxes I). Mordecai's loyalty and ...

'', 2020 *"First Class", by Kottonmouth Kings from ''

High Society High society, sometimes simply Society, is the behavior and lifestyle of people with the highest levels of wealth, power, fame and social status. It includes their related affiliations, social events and practices. Upscale social clubs were open ...

'', 2000 *"First Class", by Lil Baby from ''

Harder Than Ever ''Harder Than Ever'' is the debut studio album by American rapper Lil Baby. It was released on May 18, 2018 by 4 Pockets Full, Wolfpack Music Group, Quality Control Music, Motown and Capitol Records. The album features guest appearances from St ...

'', 2018 *"First Class", by Wiley from ''

The Ascent Ascent or The Ascent may refer to: Publications * ''Ascent'' (magazine), an independent, not-for-profit magazine * ''Ascent'' (journal), a literary journal based at Concordia College * ''Ascent'' (novel), by Jed Mercurio * '' Times Ascent'', a ...

'', 2013 *"First Class", from the Hindi film ''

Kalank ''Kalank'' (; ''Blemish'' or ''Stigma'') is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language period romantic drama film directed by Abhishek Varman and produced by Karan Johar, Hiroo Yash Johar, and Apoorva Mehta under Dharma Productions and Sajid Nadiadwala un ...

'', 2019 *"First Class (The Best Catalogue)", by Madlib from '' Beat Konducta Vol 5-6'', 2009

Computing

First-class type In a given programming language design, a first-class citizen is an entity which supports all the operations generally available to other entities. These operations typically include being passed as an argument, returned from a function, and assi ...

, a concept in programming *

First class (computing) In database modeling, a first class item is one that has an identity independent of any other item. The identity allows the item to persist when its attributes change, and allows other items to claim relationships with the item. As a general ru ...

, a concept in data modeling *

First-class function In computer science, a programming language is said to have first-class functions if it treats function (programming), functions as first-class citizens. This means the language supports passing functions as arguments to other functions, returning ...

First-class object In a given programming language design, a first-class citizen is an entity which supports all the operations generally available to other entities. These operations typically include being passed as an argument, returned from a function, and ass ...

, a concept in programming *

FirstClass FirstClass is a client–server groupware, email, online conferencing, voice and fax services, and bulletin-board system for Windows, macOS, and Linux. FirstClass's primary markets are the higher-education and K-12 education sectors, includin ...

, e-mail and online conferencing system

Leisure

First Class rank Baden-Powell's Scout training scheme was a progressive series of tests for Scout (Scouting), Boy Scouts, in skills which the founder of the Scouting, Scout Movement believed would be useful in building character and good citizenship. Background Ro ...

, in Baden-Powell's Scout training scheme *

First Class Scout (Boy Scouts of America) First Class Scout is a rank in the Boy Scouts of America, the rank above Second Class and below Star Scout. It is the highest of the lower four ranks in Scouting, and is the minimum rank that need be attained for entry into the Order of the Arr ...

, rank in Boy Scouts

Sports

First-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adju ...

* First Class Diver – the highest grade of diver in the original (and now obsolete) classification system of the

British Sub Aqua Club The British Sub-Aqua Club or BSAC has been recognised since 1954 by UK Sport as the national governing body of recreational diving in the United Kingdom. The club was founded in 1953 and at its peak in the mid-1990s had over 50,000 members d ...

Travel

First class travel First class is the most luxurious and most expensive travel class of seats and service on a train, passenger ship, airplane, bus, or other system of transport. Compared to business class and economy class, it offers the best service and most co ...

First class (aviation) First class (also sometimes branded as a suite) is a travel class on some Airliner, passenger airliners intended to be more luxurious than business class, premium economy, and economy class. Originally, all planes offered only one class of service ...

* FirstClass (airline), was a Finnish airline *

First-class carriage A railroad car, railcar ( American and Canadian English), railway wagon, railway carriage, railway truck, railwagon, railcarriage or railtruck (British English and UIC), also called a train car, train wagon, train carriage or train truc ...

in a railway train

Other uses

First-class constraint In physics, a first-class constraint is a dynamical quantity in a constrained Hamiltonian system whose Poisson bracket with all the other constraints vanishes on the constraint surface in phase space (the surface implicitly defined by the simultan ...

First Class mail The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid-19th century, national postal sys ...

* First class honours degree, see

British undergraduate degree classification The British undergraduate degree classification system is a Grading in education, grading structure used for undergraduate degrees or bachelor's degrees and Master's degree#Integrated Masters Degree, integrated master's degrees in the United Kingd ...

* First class city, an income classification for

cities in the Philippines A city ( or ) is one of the units of local government in the Philippines. All Philippine cities are chartered cities (Filipino: ), whose existence as corporate and administrative entities is governed by their own specific municipal charters in a ...

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