second – English noun declension

English noun forms of second

Noun: second
Singularsecond
Pluralseconds

Sample Sentences

  • They were discounted because they contained blemishes, nicks or were otherwise factory seconds.
  • That was good barbecue. I hope I can get seconds.
  • The policeman smiled, his eyes twinkling. "Now if you'll follow me, I'll escort you to the Victoria."
  • "Oh, there's no need of that. If you'll just point me in the right direction..."
  • That's what got you in trouble the first time around. You don't need a second. [2003, Sheila Ryan Wallace, The Sea Captain and His Ladies, page 22:]
  • Smoky Joe ran against a Houston horse named Cherokee Chief.
  • “Don't hit him,” Jeanine said to the jockey. “Maybe once. But you don't get a second.” [2009, Paulette Jiles, Stormy Weather, page 37:]
  • I'll have one chance to show them that's no longer true. One chance ... and if I stumble, I'll not get a second. [2011, Karen Miller, The Innocent Mage:]
  • Since he [i.e., Abraham Lincoln] had very long arms, he chose cavalry broadswords and took lessons in sword fighting from a West Point graduate; and, on the appointed day, he and [James] Shields met on a sandbar in the Mississippi River, prepared to fight to the death; but, at the last minute, their seconds interrupted and stopped the duel. [1936, Dale Carnegie, ‘If You Want to Gather Honey, Don’t Kick Over the Beehive’ (part 1, chapter 1), in How to Win Friends and Influence People:]
  • Joint enterprise law dates back to at least the 16th century. It was later developed to deter duelling by making seconds and doctors liable for murder. [2016 October 31, Owen Bowcott, “Appeal court upholds 'joint enterprise' guilty verdicts”, in The Guardian:]
  • Many packs have a sixer's council where the sixers, and sometimes the seconds, meet with Akela and some of the other leaders. [1995, Boy Scouts of Canada. National Council, The Cub Book:]
  • [Stephen Hawking] […] would go to Cambridge, he said, if they gave him a first, and stay at Oxford if they gave him a second. He got a first. [2004, William H. Cropper, Great Physicists, page 454:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Latin secundusbor.
3. Old French secondbor.
4. Middle English secunde
5. English second
6. From Middle English secunde, second, secound, secund, borrowed from Old French second, seond, from Latin secundus (“following, next in order”), from root of sequor (“to follow”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”). Doublet of secund and secundo. Displaced native twoth and partially displaced native other (from Old English ōþer (“other; next; second”)). See: Middle English Nouns 'secunde', Latin Nouns 'secundus'.

Verbs referencing "second"

English Nouns secondary, Irish Nouns soicind, Zulu Nouns isekhondi.