Associations to the word «Penultimate»

Wiktionary

PENULTIMATE, adjective. (UK) (scholarly) (in US usually formal) (literary or) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.
PENULTIMATE, adjective. (linguistics) Of or pertaining to a penult.
PENULTIMATE, adjective. (math) (rare) Relating to or denoting an element of a related collection of curves that is arbitrarily close to a degenerate form.
PENULTIMATE, noun. (uncommon) A penult, a next-to-last thing, particularly:
PENULTIMATE, noun. (obsolete) (rare) The penultimate day of a month.
PENULTIMATE, noun. (linguistics) (literature) (uncommon) The penultimate syllable of a word or metrical line.
PENULTIMATE, noun. (math) (obsolete) (rare) The penultimate element of a collection of curves.
PENULTIMATE, noun. (cards) (uncommon) The penultimate (next to lowest) card in a suit.

Dictionary definition

PENULTIMATE, noun. The next to last syllable in a word.
PENULTIMATE, adjective. Next to the last; "the author inadvertently reveals the murderer in the penultimate chapter"; "the figures in the next-to-last column".

Wise words

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Florence Scovel Shinn