third class
noun
the class, grade, or rank immediately below the second.
third classes
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pluralof third class.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The indisputable fact is that the laws of our land place no restrictions upon Presidential officers, a term which includes postmasters of the first, second and third classes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other posts of inferior distinction were filled by the second and third classes, who were, moreover, bound to military service—the one on horseback, the other as heavy-armed soldiers on foot.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by John Rudd
These distinctions were true also for stewards in the first, second, and third classes, a fact in their case symbolized by differences in uniform.
From Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by Morris J. MacGregor
What is at present the value of the Order of the Doorani Empire, with its showy decorations of the first, second, and third classes, the last of which was so rightfully spurned by poor Dennie?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various
The second and third classes tended to keep alive the status of the former and led to the perpetuation of the landed aristocracy.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various
