Noun: secondary
| Singular | secondary |
| Plural | secondaries |
Sample Sentences
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the secondary, or undersheriff, of the city of London
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Old Escalus […] is thy secondary. [c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:]
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There are four secondaries in this district, each with several thousand pupils.
Nouns inflected like secondary
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English secundarie, from Latin secundārius (“of the second class or quality”), from secundus (whence the English second) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary), equivalent to second + -ary; compare the French secondaire, the Italian secondario, the Occitan secundari, the Portuguese secundario, and the Spanish secundario. See: Middle English Nouns '
secundarie', Latin Nouns '
secundārius', English Nouns '
second', French Nouns '
secondaire', Italian Nouns '
secondario', Portuguese Nouns '
secundario'.