penultimate has definitions from the field of linguistics
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[ adjective ] next to the last

Synonyms

next-to-last

Examples

"the author inadvertently reveals the murderer in the penultimate chapter" "the figures in the next-to-last column"

Used in print

(High Fidelity, 11:10...)

As with the penultimate Giselle release ( Wolff 's abridgment for RCA_Victor ) I find the cleaner , less razor edged monophonic version , for all its lack of big stage spaciousness , the more aurally tolerable - but this may be the result of processing defects in my SD copies .

Related terms

last

2
[ noun ] (linguistics) the next to last syllable in a word

Synonyms

penultima penult

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