In elliptical uses. First-class accommodation in a train, ship, or aircraft; a section, cabin, or carriage of first-class accommodation; (also) the…

The second of a ranked series of classes in which things are grouped; esp. of university degrees, railway carriages, and mail.

n. phr. The class next below the second; esp. of railway carriages; also in an examination list; hence, a place in the third class in an examination.

elliptical. = tourist class n. at compounds 2.

a low-charge class of passenger accommodation in a ship, aircraft, etc.; also attributive; also adverbially, in the class of accommodation so…

Originally U.S. A class of passenger travel (esp. air travel), usually intermediate in quality between standard and first class, marketed towards…