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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: second estate
second estate
n : the second estate of the realm: the nobility (especially
British nobility) of the rank of duke or marquess or earl
or viscount or baron [syn:
lords temporal]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Second estate
Second
\Sec"ond\, a. [F., fr. L. secundus second, properly,
following, fr. sequi to follow. See
Sue to follow, and cf.
Secund.]
1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in
order of place or time; hence, occurring again; another;
other.
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And he slept and dreamed the second time. --Gen.
xli. 5.
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2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or
rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
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May the day when we become the second people upon
earth . . . be the day of our utter extirpation.
--Landor.
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3. Being of the same kind as another that has preceded;
another, like a prototype; as, a second Cato; a second
Troy; a second deluge.
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A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel! --Shak.
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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.
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On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had
known him. --Dickens.
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