fifth-rate

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fifth-rate warship. UK,historical
形容词 adj.
  1. Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 32–44 guns across one or two gun decks, a complement of 200–300, and weighing 700–1,450 tons burthen. UK,historical,not-comparable
    — [A] great and ſtout Fleet before the Texel (and not as much as one of our Fourth or Fifth Rate-Frigats could follow them)[.]
  2. Terrible, awful; less than fourth-rate. idiomatic,not-comparable,uncommon

词形变化

fifth rate alternative fifth-rates plural fifth rate alternative
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