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penultimate


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Penultimate  \Pe*nul"ti*mate\,  a. 
  Last  but  one  as  the  penultimate  syllable,  the  last  syllable 
  but  one  of  a  word 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Penultimate  \Pe*nul"ti*mate\,  n. 
  The  penult. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  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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