secondary

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   less important than the main thing

   Money was only a secondary concern for her.

2. 2
   adj

   happening as a result of, or developing from, something else

   He caught a secondary infection while in the hospital.

3. 3
   adj

   relating to the stage of education between primary school and university

   She teaches science at a secondary school.

Common collocations

• secondary school Adjective + noun

From Middle English secundarie, from Latin secundārius (“of the second class or quality”), from secundus (whence the English second) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary), equivalent to second + -ary; compare the French secondaire, the Italian secondario, the Occitan secundari, the Portuguese secundario, and the Spanish secundario.

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