SECOND CLASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does second class mean? 

• SECOND CLASS (noun)
  The noun SECOND CLASS has 3 senses:

1. not the highest rank in a classification

2. not the highest quality in a classification

3. a class of accommodations on a ship or train or plane that are less expensive than first class accommodations

  Familiarity information: SECOND CLASS used as a noun is uncommon.

• SECOND CLASS (adverb)
  The adverb SECOND CLASS has 1 sense:

1. by second class conveyance

  Familiarity information: SECOND CLASS used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECOND CLASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not the highest rank in a classification

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("second class" is a kind of...):

rank (relative status)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not the highest quality in a classification

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("second class" is a kind of...):

inferiority; low quality (an inferior quality)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A class of accommodations on a ship or train or plane that are less expensive than first class accommodations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cabin class; economy class; second class

Hypernyms ("second class" is a kind of...):

accommodation (living quarters provided for public convenience)

• SECOND CLASS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

By second class conveyance

Context example:

we traveled second class

 Context examples 

The one with red cheeks is called Miss Smith; she attends to the work, and cuts out—for we make our own clothes, our frocks, and pelisses, and everything; the little one with black hair is Miss Scatcherd; she teaches history and grammar, and hears the second class repetitions; and the one who wears a shawl, and has a pocket-handkerchief tied to her side with a yellow ribband, is Madame Pierrot: she comes from Lisle, in France, and teaches French.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)