Next-to-last

2 definitions found

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

  next-to-last \next-to-last\ adj.
     next preceding the last; as, the figures in the next-to-last
     column. [Narrower terms: {junior(prenominal), third-year}]
  
     Syn: penultimate.
          [WordNet 1.5]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  next-to-last
       adj 1: next to the last; "the author inadvertently reveals the
              murderer in the penultimate chapter"; "the figures in
              the next-to-last column" [syn: {penultimate}]
       2: used of the third or next to final year in United States
          high school or college; "the junior class"; "a third-year
          student" [syn: {junior(a)}, {third-year}]