SECOND-CLASS


Meaning of SECOND-CLASS in English

I. | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective

Etymology: second class

1. : of or relating to the next to the highest grade in a series

a second-class railway carriage

a second-class honors degree

2. : inferior , mediocre

maybe that is the way to conduct second-class works — Virgil Thomson

especially : socially or economically deprived, suppressed, or limited

racism and its attendant theory of the second-class citizen — S.H.Lowell

II. adverb

: by a second-class conveyance : with second-class accommodations

travel second-class

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.