Penultimate

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Penultimate \Pe*nul"ti*mate\, a.
     Last but one; as, the penultimate syllable, the last syllable
     but one of a word.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Penultimate \Pe*nul"ti*mate\, n.
     The penult.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]