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second-generation

[ sek-uhnd-jen-uh-rey-shuhn ]

adjective

  1. being the second generation of a family to be born in a particular country:

    the oldest son of second-generation Americans.

  2. being the native-born child of naturalized parents.
  3. being a revised or improved version of a product, system, service, etc.:

    Production has been increased with second-generation robots.



second generation

noun

  1. offspring of parents born in a given country
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. of an improved or refined stage of development in manufacture

    a second-generation robot

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

I appreciate it because, growing up as a second-generation Korean American, I had some cultural difficulties when it came to my father — something I think a lot of Asian American families can relate to.

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Uncomfortably so, a bachelor second-generation farmer finds himself with the only thriving crop in town.

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For Florez, 22, Fresno State was an easy choice because it is “really, really affordable,” and it sets up immigrant and second-generation students for success, he said.

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And several second-generation immigrants here said they were working to improve their Spanish, in order to be able to pass along legal information or translate for migrants being interviewed by authorities.

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Politicians wading into the debate around population growth ahead of the next election will be conscious of the fact that half of Canadians are first and second-generation immigrants themselves.

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