second lady

[ sek-uhnd ley-dee ]

/ ˈsɛk ənd ˈleɪ di /

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noun, plural sec·ond la·dies.

Often Second Lady . the wife of the U.S. vice president, or the wife of a current state or local official ranking immediately below the governor or mayor: Pennsylvania's Second Lady.

Often Second Lady . the wife of the second-ranking government official of any country: the second lady of Ghana.

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Origin of second lady

First recorded in 1870–75

Words nearby second lady

second heart sound, second home, second-homer, second intention, Second International, second lady, second language, second lien, second lieutenant, secondly, second man

Example sentences from the Web for second lady

I wonder what that lady is doing now, and if she knows what she set in motion with Archer?
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Gunshots rang out in Paris this morning on a second day of deadly violence that has stunned the French capital.
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And as he adjusted to this change in circumstances, he screamed at himself a second time: Wait!
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A second document was titled: “Gambia Reborn: A Charter for Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy and Development.”
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If 29 vote for someone else, the race for speaker goes to a second ballot for the first time in almost 100 years.
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In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.
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The lady in black was reading her morning devotions on the porch of a neighboring bathhouse.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
On his head was the second-hand hat of some parvenu's coachman, gold lace, cockade and all.
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The beauty, the mystery,—this fierce sunshine or something—stir——' She hesitated for a fraction of a second.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
Grandmamma sits in her quaint arm-chair— Never was lady more sweet and fair!
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