Definitions for third-class

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third-class third-class

Spelling: [thurd-klas, -klahs]

IPA: /ˈθɜrdˈklæs, -ˈklɑs/

Third-Class is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 707 anagrams from letters in third-class (-acdhilrsst).

Definitions for third-class

noun

1. the class, grade, or rank immediately below the second.
2. the least costly class of accommodations on trains, in hotels, etc. Compare tourist class.
3. (in the U.S. Postal Service) the class of mail consisting of merchandise weighing up to 16 ounces, and written or printed material, as books, manuscripts, or circulars, not sealed against postal inspection.
4. the lowest of three honors degrees conferred by a British university.

adverb

1. by third-class mail or passenger accommodations:

adjective

1. of the lowest or poorest class or quality; inferior.
2. least costly and luxurious:

Origin of third-class

First recorded in 1830-40

Examples for third-class

I wish it was as easy to put a stop to his leaning to third-class company.

Tregaskis never sold better than third-class American in all his life.

The odor in the state-room was quite equal to that of a third-class bar-room.

They then went into the third-class waiting room, and sat down.

Prominent among these was the Knigsberg, a third-class cruiser.

The third-class compartments are clean and neat, but there are no cushions on the seats.

Near an opening at the rail of the ship some of the third-class luggage had been left.

They were forming in a long line now before the third-class gang-plank.

third-class now, my boy,” said the doctor, sadly; “economising has begun.

It was, then, in a third-class compartment of the train that I met the three.