penultimate
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5.9
- adjective
- /pəˈnʌltɪmət/
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penúltimo
- The penultimate race of the season will determine the championship winner.
- the penultimate paragraph
- the penultimate chapter
- the penultimate line
So guys, we are on our penultimate taxi boat ride and back into Venice.
- So guys, we are on our penultimate taxi boat ride and back into Venice.
- Honestly, the penultimate item to show you penultimate means, but just before last, doesn't it?
- So we bought the penultimate cell on the right and because in there you could get building materials.
- Another much consulted in this zone is a mere labyrinth of letters whose penultimate page contains the phrase O time thy pyramids.
Examples
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Well, welcome to our penultimate faculty seminar in the Ricksbury Series, and I am really happy to see all of you here.
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The penultimate chapter of the book was filled with unexpected twists.
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Their illness began during the penultimate day of their cruise.
Academic text (2012) -
Fortunately, this was the penultimate day of our stay.
Academic text (2007) -
So guys, we are on our penultimate taxi boat ride and back into Venice.
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Now, I have emailed the library to make an appointment to view the books on the penultimate day of term.
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Welcome to the penultimate session on the Fall Stanford HCI Seminar.
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A week later, at the penultimate race in Malaysia, Marquez crashed hard in practice.
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The fifth and penultimate stanza widens the focus: the speaker mourns "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent."
Academic text (2011) -
She completed her penultimate exam before the final one next week.
Synonyms
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5.1
The one before the last in a series
How Final
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word penultimate comes from the Latin words paene ('almost') and ultimus ('last') and is related to ultimate. So penultimate means 'almost last', the second to last in a series.