Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
third class
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Each train has five first, three second and two third class coaches with accommodation for 650 passengers.
▪ Gandhi could have returned to the train and occupied a place in third class.
▪ He found the ward as full of interesting types as in the third class waiting room at the station.
▪ He received a third class in literae humaniores in 1903.
▪ He received a third class in natural science in 1874.
▪ That other sailor was later identified as Jonathan Rushin, a 23-year-old petty officer third class.
▪ The total accommodation on these trains was therefore limited to eighty-two first and one hundred and fifty third class passengers.
▪ Two old-fashioned third class carriages with close wooden seats were pulled by an engine that puffed bulbs of black smoke.
Wiktionary
third class
n. 1 (context US English) a reduced-rate mail service for printed matter 2 (context British English) formerly the cheapest accommodation on a train
WordNet
third class
n. mail consisting of printed matter qualifying for reduced postal rates [syn: third-class mail]
inexpensive accommodations on a ship or train [syn: tourist class]
Wikipedia
Third class
Third class may refer to:
Transportation- Economy class, a class of travel accommodations
- Third class degree; see British undergraduate degree classification
- Third class (classe de troisième), a French education level; see National diploma (France)
- Class III, a level of creditor; see Preferential creditor
- Third class objects; see First-class citizen
- The Third-Class Carriage (Le Wagon de troisième classe), painting by Honoré Daumier