SECOND-GENERATION


Meaning of SECOND-GENERATION in English

adjective

1.

used to describe people who were born in the country they live in but whose parents came to live there from another country :

She was a second-generation Japanese-American.

2.

( of a product, technology, etc. ) at a more advanced stage of development than an earlier form :

second-generation hand-held computers

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.