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
During the treaty I had been the medium of placing about forty silver medals, of the first, second, and third classes, on the necks of the chiefs.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
I say this, so that the second and third classes may feel that they, too, have an interest in this general plan.”
From Zigzag Journeys in Europe Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands by Hezekiah Butterworth
"We will eat, and sell the eggs of the first and third classes," she said, "and set the eggs of the second class, under the hens of the third class."
From Rudder Grange by Frank Richard Stockton
The second and third classes will now stay in; the fourth class can go out in the playground with the first.
From Through the Fray A Tale of the Luddite Riots by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
