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secondborn

secondborn adjective: born as the second child to parent or family.

Adjective

secondborn (not comparable)

  1. 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.
  2. 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)

  1. The second child to be born to a parent or family.
    • My secondborn is more outgoing.

secondborn meaning in Bengali

secondborn in Bengali

secondborn, second in age
মেজ mejo

Forms of secondborn

pluralsecondborns

Origin of secondborn

From second + born.

Questions about secondborn

What does secondborn mean?
Secondborn means born as the second child to parent or family.
What is secondborn in Bengali?
Secondborn in Bengali is মেজ (mejo). See Secondborn meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is secondborn?
Secondborn can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near secondborn in the dictionary

  1. secondary virginity
  2. secondary work
  3. secondary works
  4. secondary world
  5. secondary worlds
  6. secondborn
  7. secondborns
  8. seconde
  9. seconded
  10. secondee
  11. secondees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: secondborn (page history and authors); মেজ (Bengali) (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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