second
About 272.30 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
He lives on Second Street.
- adjective Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
His job is second priority, because his family is the most important thing in his life.
- adjective Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
Residents of Texas prepared for Hurricane Harvey, which would in some ways turn out to become the second Hurricane Katrina.
- adverb After the first; at the second rank.
Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system.
- adverb After the first occurrence but before the third.
He is batting second today.
- noun Something that is number two in a series.
- noun Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
- noun The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
Similar words
sec moment instant intermediate endorsement endorse indorse forward back irregular
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Word family
2nd seconded seconder seconders seconding seconds
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