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Princeton's WordNet

  1. second classnoun

    not the highest rank in a classification

  2. second classnoun

    not the highest quality in a classification

  3. cabin class, second class, economy classadjective

    a class of accommodations on a ship or train or plane that are less expensive than first class accommodations

  4. second-classadverb

    of inferior status or quality

    "a second-class citizen"; "second-class accommodations"

  5. second classadverb

    by second class conveyance

    "we traveled second class"

GCIDE

  1. Second-classadjective

    Of the rank or degree below the best or highest; inferior; second-rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage; a second-class citizen.

Wiktionary

  1. second-classadjective

    Inferior in quality or standing.

ChatGPT

  1. second-class

    Second-class refers to a level or grade regarded as inferior or less important than the highest or primary level. This term is often used to label things or people considered of lower importance or less valuable compared to others.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Second-classadjective

    of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second-rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of second-class in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of second-class in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of second-class in a Sentence

  1. Marjorie Taylor:

    You know, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy can look back at a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star, and they were definitely treated like second class citizens, so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany, and this is exactly the type of abuse that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is talking about.

  2. Becket Executive Director Montse Alvarado:

    A hearty bah-humbug toast to university officials who make Christian and Jewish students feel like second class citizens at a time that should be full of brotherly love and giving.

  3. Hillary Clinton:

    I don't like the idea that as a compromise you would basically have two people on the same bill. One would be a woman. That sounds pretty second class to me, so I think a woman should have her own bill.

  4. Chuck Rocha:

    He's traveled around the country for the last four years listening to young immigrants talk about the struggles that they've had of traveling across the desert, risking their lives with their families, to come to a place that has a president that demagogues them, that treats them like second-class citizens, it's really moved him in some of the most emotional ways I've ever seen Bernie Sanders react.

  5. Hillary Clinton:

    This is where I differ with everybody on the Republican side, make no mistake: Not a single Republican candidate, announced or potential, is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. When they talk about legal status, that is code for second class status.


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