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penultimate

About 0.67 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to a penult.
  3. adjective Relating to or denoting an element of a related collection of curves that is arbitrarily close to a degenerate form.
  4. adjective pre-eminent, ultimate, best; par excellence, top-quality
  5. noun A penult, a next to last, particularly: The penultimate day of a month. The penultimate syllable of a word or metrical line. The penultimate element of a collection of curves. The penultimate (next to lowest) card in a suit.
  6. noun The penultimate day of a month.
  7. noun The penultimate syllable of a word or metrical line.
  8. noun The penultimate element of a collection of curves.

Similar words

penult penultima next-to-last last last but one next to last second last second to last antepenultimate propenultimate

Often followed by

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Word family

penultimately

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