second
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛkənd/
enpr: sĕʹkənd
ipa: /ˈsɛk.(ə)nd/
ipa: /ˈsɛkɪnd/
rhymes: -ɛkənd
Forms: form: 2nd
form: 2ⁿᵈ
form: 2d
form: 2ᵈ
form: IInd
form: II
form: II.
Etymology: From Middle English secunde, second, secound, secund, borrowed from Old French second, seond, from Latin secundus (“following, next in order”), from root of sequor (“I follow”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”). Doublet of secund and secundo. Displaced native twoth and partially displaced native other (from Old English ōþer (“other; next; second”)).
Senses: examples: text: He lives on Second Street.
text: The second volume in "The Lord of the Rings" series is called "The Two Towers".
text: He became the second player to hit 50000 runs for his county.
text: You take the first one, and I'll have the second.
text: The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.[…]The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249:
text: Malay is the lingua franca of several Southeast Asia countries and has been simplified by its use as a second language by non-native speakers.
For example, the Malay plural is formed by repeating a word twice – buku means book and buku-buku means books.
ref: 2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN:
text: Consequently, in the initial position the white pieces and pawns are placed on the first and second ranks; the black pieces and pawns on the eighth and seventh ranks.
ref: 2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE, page 21:
glosses: Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
examples: text: May the day when we become the second people upon earth […] be the day of our utter extirpation!
ref: 1824, Walter Savage Landor, “Conversation I. Richard I and the Abbot of Boxley.”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume I, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
examples: text: Residents of Texas prepared for Hurricane Harvey, which would in some ways turn out to become the second Hurricane Katrina.
text: A Daniel ſtill ſay I, a ſecond Daniel,[…]
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 180, column 2:
glosses: Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
Synonyms: other
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from second (adjective)
word: at second hand
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word: beard-second
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word: come off second best
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word: court of second instance
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word: error of the second kind
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word: have second thoughts
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word: murder in the second degree
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word: Newton's second law
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word: on second thought
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word: on second thoughts
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word: party of the second part
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word: perpetual motion machine of the second kind
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word: play second fiddle
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word: second act
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word: second amendment
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word: secondary
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word: second aunt
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word: second banana
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word: second base
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word: second baseman
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word: second best
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word: secondborn
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word: second brain
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word: second breakfast
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word: second chance
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word: second childhood
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word: second city
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word: second class
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word: second coming
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word: second conditional
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word: second contact
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word: second cosmic velocity
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word: second-countable
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word: second countable
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word: second cousin
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word: second cranial nerve
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word: second day cover
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word: second death
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word: second-degree
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word: second derivative
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word: second distance
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word: second division
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word: second down
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word: second-drawer
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word: second estate
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word: second family
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word: second fiddle
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word: second five-eighth
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word: second flour
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word: second freedom rights
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word: second from last
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word: second gas effect
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word: second-generation
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word: second gentleman
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word: second girl
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word: second grade
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word: second grader
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word: second-growth forest
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word: second-guarder
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word: second-guess
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word: second guesser
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word: second half
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word: second-hand
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word: secondhanded
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word: second-harmonic generation
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word: second helping
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word: second home
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word: second impact syndrome
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word: second imperative
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word: second in command
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word: second-in-command
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word: second inversion
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word: second island chain
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word: second joint
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word: second lady
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word: second language
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word: second last
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word: second-last
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word: second leg
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word: second-level domain
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word: second lieutenant
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word: second-line
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word: second line
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word: secondly
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word: secondman
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word: second man
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word: second messenger
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word: second-mile service
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word: second moment of area
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word: second moment of inertia
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word: secondmost
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word: second most
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word: second mourning
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word: second name
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word: second nature
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word: secondness
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word: second new ball
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word: second normal form
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word: second officer
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word: second opinion
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word: second-order
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word: second order cybernetics
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word: second order stream
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word: second palatalization
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word: second party
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word: second person
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word: second position
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word: second preimage attack
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word: second puberty
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word: second quest
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word: second-rate
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word: second reading
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word: second-round effect
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word: second row
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word: second screen
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word: second serve
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word: second service
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word: second session
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word: second sheet
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word: second shift
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word: second sight
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word: second-sighted
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word: second skin
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word: second slip
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word: second sound
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word: second source
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word: Secondspace
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word: second-storey man
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word: second strike
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word: second string
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word: second-system effect
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word: second-system syndrome
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word: second team
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word: second thought
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word: second thoughts
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word: second to last
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word: second to none
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word: second Tuesday of the week
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word: second uncle
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word: second unit
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word: second violin
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word: second violinist
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word: second virginity
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word: second wave
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word: second wind
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word: second year
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word: second yellow card
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word: Stirling number of the second kind
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word: the second mouse gets the cheese