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Definition of Penultimate

1. Noun. The next to last syllable in a word.

2. Adjective. Next to the last. "The figures in the next-to-last column"

Definition of Penultimate

1. a. Last but one; as, the penultimate syllable, the last syllable but one of a word.

2. n. The penult.

Definition of Penultimate

1. Adjective. Coming next-to-last in a sequence. ¹

2. Adjective. (linguistics) Of or pertaining to a penult. ¹

3. Noun. A next-to-last thing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Penultimate

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Penultimate

pentyls pentyne pentynes penuche penuches penuchi penuchis penuchle penuchles penuckle

penuckles penult penultima penultima law penultimas penultimate (current term) penultimately penultimates penults penumbra

penumbrae penumbral penumbras penumbrous penup penups penuries penurious penuriously penuriousness

Literary usage of Penultimate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are by John Walker (1799)
"... penultimate Member. An exception to the foregoing rules forms another rule, ... the ear always requires this inflexion on the penultimate member; ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... Troye of the Bit-seed Virgin, which is built upon the penultimate word, ... more or less ingeniously, between the penultimate and last word of their ..."

3. The Life of John Milton by Charles Symmons (1822)
"... occasioned by the erroneous shortening of the penultimate vowel, or the equally erroneous hardening of the penultimate consonant, when it happened to be ..."

4. A Grammar of the Latin Language: For the Use of Schools and Colleges by Ethan Allen Andrews, Solomon Stoddard (1845)
"OF THE QUANTITIES OF THE penultimate AND FINAL SYLLABLES. § 13. ... The penultimate syllable, or penult, is the last syllable but one. ..."

5. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1904)
"On this plate he figures a larva in its last, its penultimate, and ante-penultimate skin, and, like another larva that he records, and which precisely ..."

6. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1897)
"CHAPTER XLII THE penultimate: SHOWING A FINAL STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY AND RUN INTO HARNESS THE prophet of the storm had forgotten his prediction; which, ..."

7. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society by London Mathematical Society (1896)
"Now the penultimate of the li'f groups of G'f is necessarily a factor of the ... It must be a factor of the penultimate of the £, groups of Of whose orders ..."

8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"Contemporaneously with the echo, the lead of the penultimate card from suits of five or more cards was strenuously advocated in some quartern, ..."

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