second best

something that is not as good as the thing that you really want I know exactly what sort of apartment I'm looking for and I'm not going to settle for second best.

second best

Also, second class. Next after the first in rank or quality, inferior to the best, as in We aren't satisfied with being second best in sales, or This hotel is obviously second class. The first term dates from the first half of the 1400s, the variant from about 1800. Also see come off, def. 2; second class.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Perry	PER-ee	English
Yevgeniya	yev-GYE-nee-yah, eev-GYE-nee-yah	Russian
Aref	-	Persian
Marina	mah-REE-nah (Italian, Spanish, German, Russian), mə-REEN-ə (English)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, English, Greek, Russian, Uk
Agnethe	-	Danish
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