second-rate
Noun
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Noun
second-rate
- (military, nautical, historical) a British ship-of-the-line sail warship having 90 to 98 guns dispersed on three gundecks.
second-rate
- Of mediocre quality; not first class.
- 1971, Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150—750, Thames & Hudson LTD (2013 reprint), ISBN 0393958035, page 53.
- ‘Revelation’, to a philosopher such as Plotinus, was not merely irrational: it led to second-rate counterfeits of traditional academic philosophical culture. It was as if the inhabitants of an underdeveloped country were to seek to catch up with western technology by claiming to have learnt nuclear physics through dreams and oracles.
- 1971, Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150—750, Thames & Hudson LTD (2013 reprint), ISBN 0393958035, page 53.
- French: de second ordre, de second rang
- Italian: scadente
- Spanish: de baja estofa, de chichinabo, de pacotilla, de tres al cuarto
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