Usually means: Second to last in sequence.
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  1. penult: Merriam-Webster
  2. penult: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. penult: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. penult: Collins English Dictionary
  5. penult: Vocabulary.com
  6. penult: Wordnik
  7. penult: Wiktionary
  8. penult: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. penult: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. penult: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Penult, penult: Dictionary.com
  12. penult: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Penult: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Penult: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. penult: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. penult: Rhymezone
  17. Penult: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. penult: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. penult: FreeDictionary.org
  20. penult: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. penult: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (penult)

▸ noun:  The next-to-last syllable of a word.
▸ noun:  The next to the last in a series.

Similar:
penultima, penultimate, antepenult, subpunctis, final, pentimal, quinquesyllable, subsemitone, sexisyllable, compunctis, more...

Opposite:
ultimate, last, final

Adjectives:
long, short, heavy, accented, light, closed, open, anti, atonic, line, ante
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Similar:
penultima, penultimate, antepenult, subpunctis, final, pentimal, quinquesyllable, subsemitone, sexisyllable, compunctis, more...

Opposite:
ultimate, last, final

Adjectives:
long, short, heavy, accented, light, closed, open, anti, atonic, line, ante



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