Secondary Adjective ˈsekəndri ˈsekənderi Teachers Curriculum Consideration Experience

• secondary teachers
• the secondary curriculum
• that is just a secondary consideration.
• experience is what matters—age is of secondary importance.

secondary

1. connected with teaching children of 11–18 years
• COMPARE elementary
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• secondary teachers
• the secondary curriculum
2. less important than something else
• That is just a secondary consideration.
• Experience is what matters—age is of secondary importance.
• Raising animals was only secondary to other forms of farming.
• After a while, his writing became secondary to his celebrity.
• Forests are secondary in importance only to the oceans in their effects on the earth.
• The characters and plot become secondary to the setting and atmosphere.
3. happening as a result of something else
• a secondary infection
• a secondary effect
• a secondary colour (= made from mixing two primary colours)
• a secondary outcome

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Latin secundarius ‘of the second quality or class’, from secundus ‘following, second’, from the base of sequi ‘follow’.