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Definition of Third class
1. Noun. Mail consisting of printed matter qualifying for reduced postal rates.
2. Noun. Inexpensive accommodations on a ship or train.
Definition of Third class
1. Noun. (American English) a reduced-rate mail service for printed matter ¹
2. Noun. (British) formerly the cheapest accomodation on a train ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Third Class
Literary usage of Third class
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The receipts from passenger traffic in 1883 are given in Table XII. (m below).
The decided preponderance of third-class traffic shown in this table is the ..."
2. Railway Economy: A Treatise on the New Art of Transport, Its Management by Dionysius Lardner (1850)
"It will be observed that the relative proportion of third-class passengers ...
Previously to 1846, the carriages provided for third- class passengers were ..."
3. A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence, as Administered in the United States of by John Norton Pomeroy, Carter Pitkin Pomeroy (1899)
"... a multi- plicity of suits has been exercised. § 271. Cases of the first class.
§ 272. Cases of the second class. § 273. Cases of the third class. § 274. ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"The duty on wools of the third class, if imported in condition for use in carding
or spinning into yarn«, or which shall not contain more than eight per ..."
5. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1861)
"THE third class of the political school of sociological ideas, upon the consideration
of which it is proposed now to enter, is, by far, the most erroneous ..."
6. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1844)
"... and the average charge to each passenger in England and Wales, of the first
class, was 82d. ; of the second class, 31 }d. ; of the third class, ..."
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