fifth-rate

See also: fifth rate

English

Alternative forms

• fifth rate

Adjective

fifth-rate (not comparable)

1. (UK, military, nautical, historical) 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.
2. (idiomatic, uncommon) Terrible, awful; less than fourth-rate.

See also

• first-rate
• fourth-rate
• second-rate
• sixth-rate
• third-rate

 

Noun

fifth-rate (plural fifth-rates)

1. (UK, military, nautical, historical) A fifth-rate warship.

See also

• frigate
• great frigate