second class

1. 1.

   by second class conveyance

   “we traveled second class”

Questions about second class

What does second class mean?

second class means "not the highest rank in a classification". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for second class?

Close synonyms include cabin class, economy class. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is second class a common word?

second class is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.