Second World

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

1. the world's industrialized nations other than the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.

2. the Communist and socialist nations of the world.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Second World¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

The Brewers are playing for only the second World Series berth in team history, and a high-profile athlete who grew up less than two hours from Milwaukee in Oshkosh, Wis., is actively rooting against them.

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In a symbolic moment of reconciliation, he also went to Hamburg where he laid a wreath remembering those who had died in the Allied bombing of the city during the Second World War.

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For a history buff, the region is fascinating - Burgess says just travelling around there are "monuments that you constantly drive past which remind you of the First and Second World Wars".

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The festival was a national exhibition to promote the country's art, design, technology and science and uplift the public after the Second World War.

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“We were born in the Second World War, 1944 and we had rations — we were living on suet and you were living on steak here,” Daltrey said in his own interview.

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