SECOND


Meaning of SECOND in English

n. 25B6; adjective

the second day of the trial : NEXT, following, subsequent, succeeding.

he keeps a second pair of glasses in his office : ADDITIONAL, extra, alternative, another, spare, back-up, relief, fallback; N. Amer. alternate.

he dropped down to captain the second team : SECONDARY, lower, subordinate, subsidiary, lesser, inferior.

the conflict could turn into a second Vietnam : ANOTHER, new; repeat of, copy of, carbon copy of.

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25B6; noun

Eva had been working as his second : ASSISTANT, attendant, helper, aide, supporter, auxiliary, right-hand man/woman, girl/man Friday, second in command, number two, deputy, understudy, subordinate; informal sidekick.

(informal) he enjoyed the pie and asked for seconds : A SECOND HELPING, a further helping, more.

25B6; verb George Beale seconded the motion : FORMALLY SUPPORT, give one's support to, vote for, back, approve, endorse.

25A0; second to none INCOMPARABLE, matchless, unrivalled, inimitable, beyond compare/comparison, unparalleled, without parallel, unequalled, without equal, in a class of its own, peerless, unsurpassed, unsurpassable, nonpareil, unique; perfect, consummate, transcendent, surpassing, superlative, supreme; formal unexampled.

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