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third-rates

third-rates is the plural of third-rate.

Meaning of third-rate

Noun

third-rate (plural third-rates)

  1. (UK, historical) A third-rate ship of the line.

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Questions about third-rates

What is third-rates the plural of?
Third-rates is the plural of third-rate.

Words near third-rates in the dictionary

  1. third-personal
  2. third-pound
  3. third-pounder
  4. third-pounders
  5. third-rate
  6. third-rates
  7. third-string
  8. third-stringer
  9. third-stringers
  10. third-to-last
  11. third-wave coffee

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Adapted from Wiktionary: third-rates (page history and authors); third-rate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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