second-place finish

1. 1.

   a finish in second place (as in a race)

   Synonymsrunner-up finish

   Broaderfinish

Questions about second-place finish

What does second-place finish mean?

second-place finish means "a finish in second place (as in a race)".

What is another word for second-place finish?

Close synonyms include runner-up finish. 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-place finish a common word?

second-place finish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.