Penultimate Definition

pĭ-nŭltə-mĭt
adjective
Next to the last.
Webster's New World
Of the penult.
Webster's New World

(formal, literary or scholarly) Coming next-to-last in a sequence.

Wiktionary
(mathematics, rare) Relating to or denoting an element of a related collection of curves that is arbitrarily close to a degenerate form.
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noun
The next to the last.
American Heritage

Penult.

Webster's New World
A next-to-last thing.
Wiktionary
(linguistics) A next-to-last syllable in a linguistic unit.
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(card games) The second to lowest ranked card in a suit.
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Other Word Forms of Penultimate

Noun

Singular:
penultimate
Plural:
penultimates

Origin of Penultimate

  • From Latin paenultimus, from paene (“almost") + ultimus (“last").

    From Wiktionary

  • From Latin paenultimus penult

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Penultimate Sentence Examples

  • The genital ducts open on the penultimate somite.

  • Albus Dumbledore - In a stunning turn of events, Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts and Harry's mentor dies in the fiery conclusion of the series penultimate novel.

  • Isobel - The season's penultimate episode brought Elena's biological mother to town.

  • Young resembling parents, but penultimate instar passive and enclosed in a filmy pellicle.

  • These glands are represented externally by a special plate, the cribellum, which lies in front of the ordinary spinning mamillae, and by a comb of short bristles, the calamistrum, placed in the penultimate segment of the left of the last pair.

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Words Starting With

PPEPEN

Words Ending With

ETEATE

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Words Starting With P and Ending With E

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11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With P11 Letter Words Ending With E