second family
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.34 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The family of the Vice President of the United States.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Second Family.
Example Sentences
- "We have precedent for two opposite social attitudes toward second families, as they were called before legal second families through sequential marriage became so fashionable."
- "The children in these families often only grasped to full extent of a paterfamilias’s perfidy at his funeral, when they would discover, standing at the graveside, a previously known unknown second family, complete with second widow, grieving children and claims to the estate."