Second-best meaning

Second best is a choice that is next in quality to the best.

An example of second best is when you date someone on the rebound after the person that you really love broke up with you.

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Something next in quality below the first; something next to the best.
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One that is next to the best.
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Next to the best.
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Second-best Sentence Examples

  • We both settled for second best.

  • She said they both accepted second best.

  • It has one of the finest collections of casts in existence, a number of original pieces of Greek statuary, the second-best collection in the world of Aretine ware, the finest collection of Japanese pottery, and probably the largest and finest of Japanese paintings in existence.

  • The rest of the piskies appeared at the door with his second best bullock.

  • So the poor northerners will have to do with second best.

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