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• second-generation
  second-generation

  adjective

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

  noun

  offspring of parents born in a given country

second-generation

American  

[sek-uhnd-jen-uh-rey-shuhn] / ˈsɛk əndˌdʒɛn əˈreɪ ʃən /

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.

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second generation British  

noun

1. offspring of parents born in a given country

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

   a second-generation robot

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She cites a survey, for instance, in which second-generation Nigerian immigrants were asked what being American meant to them: Seventy percent responded that they believed in the American Dream.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

For Uttapa, 17, these interactions seemed authentic; he is a second-generation Mexican American whose grandmother came to the U.S. from Mexico, while his mother was born here.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

Nash's exploration of Irish history also places her in a long tradition of second-generation Irish artists examining their heritage.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Among them are new evidence for second-generation black holes, the most accurate sky localization ever achieved for a gravitational wave source, and the first measurement of three vibrational modes from a black hole.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026

During the first two decades after the war for independence from Britain, large numbers of first- and second-generation Ulster Scots moved westward into the Ohio Valley, western Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Feldman, Pasadena Playhouse’s artistic director, noted that Eustis represents the second generation of leaders of the “first chapter” of the nonprofit regional theater movement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

It has since released a second generation of its Majorana chip, which it says is 1,000 times more reliable than the previous one.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

The first generation included 26 mice, followed by 34 offspring in the second generation and 19 animals in the third generation.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026

The first Trainium debuted in 2020, followed by a second generation that touted a big boost in performance.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

White flowers vanished in the second generation, the hybrids, only to reemerge in some members of the third.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee