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Dictionary Results For "penultimate" [?]/[OPML]
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English

Etymology

From , from {{term|paene||almost}} + {{term|ultimus||last}}.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /pɪ'nʌltɪmət/
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-penultimate.ogg


Adjective

  1. Coming next-to-last in a sequence.
  2. : In a sequence of events, the penultimate event is the one that precedes the final event.
  3. Of or pertaining to a penult


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Translations

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  • Estonian:
  • Finnish:
  • French: ,
  • German:
  • Icelandic:
  • Italian:
  • Polish:
  • Portuguese:
  • Romanian:
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|предпоследний|tr=pr'edposl'édnij|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Spanish:
  • Swedish:

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Noun

  1. A next-to-last thing


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Penultimate \Pe*nul"ti*mate\, a.
Last but one; as, the penultimate syllable, the last syllable
but one of a word.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Penultimate \Pe*nul"ti*mate\, n.
The penult.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet penultimate
adj : next to the last; "the author inadvertently reveals the
murderer in the penultimate chapter"; "the figures in
the next-to-last column" [syn: next-to-last]
n : the next to last syllable in a word [syn: penult, penultima]
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