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▸ adjective:  (UK, in US usually formal, literary or scholarly) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.
▸ adjective:  (linguistics) Of or pertaining to a penult.
▸ adjective:  (mathematics, rare) Relating to or denoting an element of a related collection of curves that is arbitrarily close to a degenerate form.
▸ adjective:  (proscribed) pre-eminent, ultimate, best; par excellence, top-quality
▸ noun:  (uncommon) A penult, a next to last, particularly:
▸ noun:  (obsolete, rare) The penultimate day of a month.
▸ noun:  (linguistics, literature, uncommon) The penultimate syllable of a word or metrical line.
▸ noun:  (mathematics, obsolete, rare) The penultimate element of a collection of curves.
▸ noun:  (card games, uncommon) The penultimate (next to lowest) card in a suit.





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