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Definition of Second class

1. Noun. Not the highest rank in a classification.

2. Adverb. By second class conveyance. "We traveled second class"

3. Noun. Not the highest quality in a classification.

4. Noun. A class of accommodations on a ship or train or plane that are less expensive than first class accommodations.

Definition of Second class

1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of second-class) ¹

2. Proper noun. The second-lowest rank in the Boy Scouts of America, between tenderfoot and first class ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Second Class

second-string second-stringer second-to-last second-year second act second balcony second banana second bananas second base second baseman

second bases second battle of Ypres second best second childhood second conditional second countable second cousin second cousin once removed second cousins second cranial nerve

second cuneiform bone second deck second degree A-V block second degree burn second down second estate second fiddle second fiddles

Literary usage of Second class

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Of these only б per cent «ere first and 10J second class passengers, ... On 1st May 1885 second-class carnages were abolished on the branch lines of the ..."

2. The Theory of Functions of a Real Variable and the Theory of Fourier's Series by Ernest William Hobson (1907)
"It has thus been shewn that there are two kinds of numbers of the second class, (1) those which have an immediate predecessor ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"The aggregate amount of judgments of the second class rendered by said court re-es^ tablished by said Act. including interest, ..."

4. Report by New South Wales Dept. of Education (1894)
"School of the First Class £285 £194 Do second class 239 182 Do Third Class „ J94 171 Do Fourth Class 182 160 Assistant Teachers, 113. ..."

5. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1922)
"The denial to a newspaper of entry as second-class mall, or the revocation of ... It merely deprives him of the very low postal rates, called second-class, ..."

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