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How to pronounce “second-rate”
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- Practice the English pronunciation of second-rate with real speech in context.
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- Definition summary
- (UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 80–98 guns across three gun decks, a complement of 700–750, and weighing approximately 2,200 tons burthen.
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Meaning
- [Adjective]
- (UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 80–98 guns across three gun decks, a complement of 700–750, and weighing approximately 2,200 tons burthen.
- (idiomatic) Of mediocre quality; not first-rate.
- [Noun]
- (UK, military, nautical, historical) A second-rate ship of the line.
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