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secondary sources

secondary sources is the plural of secondary source.

Meaning of secondary source

Noun

secondary source (plural secondary sources)

  1. (scholarly studies) A written commentary which discusses previously produced original work of another author, especially a notable author.
  2. A study of past events or a past author written from the perspective of a later period of time; a document that draws on one or more historical primary sources and interprets or analyses them, including documents such as newspapers whose accuracy is open to question.
    Synonyms:
    secondary work

Questions about secondary sources

What is secondary sources the plural of?
Secondary sources is the plural of secondary source.

Words near secondary sources in the dictionary

  1. secondary sectors
  2. secondary sex characteristic
  3. secondary sex characteristics
  4. secondary smoking
  5. secondary source
  6. secondary sources
  7. secondary storage
  8. secondary storages
  9. secondary stress
  10. secondary stresses
  11. secondary structure

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Adapted from Wiktionary: secondary sources (page history and authors); secondary source (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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