secondborn
nounEtymology From second + born.
1
The second child to be born to a parent or family.
- My secondborn is more outgoing.
secondborn
adjEtymology From second + born.
1
Born as the second child to parent or family.
- In the novel Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennett, the heroine, is her family's secondborn child.
2
Second of a particular type to be born to a parent or family.
- Jane Austen, the secondborn daughter in a family of five boys and two girls, was very close to her sister older Cassandra.