adv
Meaning 1
In the second place.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
secondly
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: sĕkʹəndlē
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General-American: /ˈsɛk.(ə)ndli/
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General-American: /ˈsɛk.(ə)ntli/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsɛkəndli/
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CMU ARPABET: S EH1 K AH0 N D L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adverb
Meaning 2
in the second place
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- second, we must consider the economy
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: second
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English second Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English secondly From second + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
37 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: ثَانِيًا (ṯāniyan) — in the second place
- Azerbaijani: ikincisi — in the second place
- Bashkir: икенсенән (ikensenən) — in the second place
- Belarusian: па-друго́е (pa-druhóje) — in the second place
- Bulgarian: вто́ро (vtóro) — in the second place
- Chinese Mandarin: 二來 /二来 (èrlái) — in the second place
- Chinese Mandarin: 第二 (dì'èr) — in the second place
- Czech: za druhé — in the second place
- Esperanto: due — in the second place
- Estonian: teiseks — in the second place
- Finnish: toiseksi — in the second place
- French: deuxièmement — in the second place
- German: zweitens — in the second place
- Greek: δεύτερον (défteron) — in the second place
- Hungarian: másodsorban — in the second place
- Ido: duesme — in the second place
- Italian: secondamente — in the second place
- Japanese: 第二に (daini ni) — in the second place
- Kazakh: екіншіден (ekınşıden) — in the second place
- Korean: 둘째로 (duljjaero) — in the second place
- Macedonian: второ (vtoro) — in the second place
- Norwegian Bokmål: for det annet — in the second place
- Persian: ثانیاً (sâniyan) — in the second place
- Polish: po drugie — in the second place
- Portuguese: segundamente — in the second place
- Russian: во-вторы́х (vo-vtorýx) — in the second place
- Serbo-Croatian: дру̏го̄ — in the second place
- Serbo-Croatian: drȕgō — in the second place
- Slovak: po druhé — in the second place
- Slovene: drugič — in the second place
- Spanish: en segundo lugar — in the second place
- Tajik: сониян (soniyan) — in the second place
- Ukrainian: по-дру́ге (po-drúhe) — in the second place
- Uzbek: ikkinchidan — in the second place
- Uzbek: ikkilamchi — in the second place
- Yakut: иккиһинэн (ikkihinen) — in the second place
- Yiddish: צווייטנס (tsveytns) — in the second place
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