Those countries aligned with the East during the Cold War, particularly in contrast to those aligned with the West (First World).

The ordinal form of the number twenty-two. / Lasting twenty seconds.

The person or thing in the twenty-second position. / One of twenty-two equal parts of a whole.

A violinist who is assigned to play the second violin part.

Every other/two; each alternate.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: Once per second. / (figuratively) Very frequently; more frequently than is desired.

(slang, sometimes capitalized) Heroin.

Alternative spelling of second-rate

Alternative spelling of second-rate

A unit of length, used in astronomy, defined as the distance from the Earth of an object that exhibits a parallax of 1 arcsecond. It is approximately equal to 3.08568025 × 10¹³ kilometers or 3.2616 light years.