third-class

See also: third class

English

Adjective

third-class (not comparable)

1. Most inferior in quality or standing.

   Travelling third-class isn't just slow, it's painful.

   • 1950 February, W. Dendy, “Impressions of the Indian Railways—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 120:

     Third-class carriages are grossly overcrowded, with passengers lying on the luggage racks, standing between the benches, and occasionally even riding on the footboards and clinging to the outsides of the coaches for short distances.

Related terms

• first-class
• second-class

Translations

most inferior in quality or standing

Chinese: Mandarin: 三等 (zh) (sānděng) Finnish: kolmannen luokan German: dritter Klasse, drittklassig (de) Russian: третьесо́ртный (ru) (tretʹjesórtnyj)