third-rate hotel
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- noun
- Informal
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hotel de tercera categoría
- Many tourists accidentally book a third-rate hotel and regret their decision upon arrival.
Examples
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We stayed at a third-rate hotel during our vacation.
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After reading the reviews, we decided to avoid any third-rate hotel during our business trip.
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She complained that the third-rate hotel had dirty sheets and unfriendly staff.
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I would never recommend a third-rate hotel to anyone!
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The travelers were disappointed when they arrived at the third-rate hotel with stained carpets and broken furniture.
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After a long journey, they chose to stay in a third-rate hotel to save money, but the service was terrible.
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Despite its low price, the third-rate hotel offered very few amenities and was not clean.
Synonyms
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A cheap, dirty hotel in bad condition
A business or place of very low quality with bad service and dirty conditions
Antonyms
How Good
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- Archaic
- Informal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a hotel of poor quality' is directly and transparently derivable from the adjective 'third-rate' (substandard) combined with 'hotel' (place for lodging). This is a straightforward adjective + noun composition that follows regular evaluative gradation and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Third-rate hotel comes from old ratings that called the best places 'first-rate' and put worse ones in lower groups, so being third meant lower quality. So, a third-rate hotel means a hotel of 'low quality' with poor rooms or bad service.