The Collaborative International Dictionary
Second \Sec"ond\, a. [F., fr. L. secundus second, properly, following, fr. sequi to follow. See Sue to follow, and cf. Secund.]
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Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occurring again; another; other.
And he slept and dreamed the second time.
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Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
May the day when we become the second people upon earth . . . be the day of our utter extirpation.
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Being of the same kind as another that has preceded; another, like a prototype; as, a second Cato; a second Troy; a second deluge.
A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel!
--Shak.Second Adventist. See Adventist.
Second cousin, the child of a cousin.
Second-cut file. See under File.
Second distance (Art), that part of a picture between the foreground and the background; -- called also middle ground, or middle distance. [R.]
Second estate (Eng.), the House of Peers.
Second girl, a female house-servant who does the lighter work, as chamber work or waiting on table.
Second intention. See under Intention.
Second story, Second floor, in America, the second range of rooms from the street level. This, in England, is called the first floor, the one beneath being the ground floor.
Second thought or Second thoughts, consideration of a matter following a first impulse or impression; reconsideration.
On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had known him.
--Dickens.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A grandchild of a grandparent's sibling. A grandnephew or grandniece of a grandparent. 2 A child of a parent's first cousin. 3 A person who shares common great-grandparents, but grandparents and parents are different.
WordNet
n. a child of a first cousin
Usage examples of "second cousin".
After it had been determined that Dean had played junior hockey against a buddy the guards second cousin had gone to school with, she waved them on.
That is to say, not his cousin but his second cousin, or something like that.
She knew of one man, a sergeant of police, who was supporting an uncle, two aunts, and a second cousin.
It would be altogether too likely that the stranger would say, 'You can't be, because she is a short, fat woman in her fifties, and my second cousin once removed on my mother's side.
And Cousin Garian with his chief toady, a second cousin named Nyl, were busy staring down at the young people gathered in the first rows of the pit.