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

adjective

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

   a second-generation robot

Example Sentences

Pryor, a second-generation senator, is holding off a fierce challenge from conservative idol Tom Cotton.

From The Daily Beast

But the biggest difference in the second-generation trip is that the new bus is a drug-free zone.

From The Daily Beast

The principal, a second-generation Holocaust survivor, takes offense.

From The Daily Beast

That coal miner was a second-generation miner in his late 30s.

From The Daily Beast

But the second-generation Latino family looks very different.

From The Daily Beast

Probably second-generation ones can keep going after we'd pass out.

From Project Gutenberg

For these second-generation farms, wheat and corn for export to England and the West Indies became the principal income crops.

From Project Gutenberg