secondborn
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English
Etymology
Adjective
secondborn (not comparable)
- Born as the second child to parent or family.
- In the novel Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennett, the heroine, is her family's secondborn child.
- Second of a particular type to be born to a parent or family.
- Jane Austen, the secondborn daughter in a family of five boys and two girls, was very close to her sister older Cassandra.
Noun
secondborn (plural secondborns)