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second best

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second best
n.
One that is next to the best.
adv.
Next to the best.
second-best (sknd-bst) adj.
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Noun1.second best - the competitor who finishes second
runner-up
challenger, competitor, contender, rival, competition - the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"
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And when Anne, dressed in her second best, as primly opened it, both little girls shook hands as gravely as if they had never met before.
Anne Of Green Gables by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
She was wearing a black cashmere dress that had been her aunt Jane's second best.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
His calicoes were the finest, or, in other words, the most showy, of any that were brought into the country, and it was impossible to look at the prices asked for his goods by” so pretty a spoken man,” Through these conjoint means, the affairs of Monsieur Le Quoi were again in a prosperous condition, and he was looked up to by the settlers as the second best man on the
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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