adj
Rare spelling of antepenultimate. [Two before the last, i.e., the one immediately before the penultimate, in a series.]
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(poetry) The last syllable of a word except two
adj
Two before the last, i.e., the one immediately before the penultimate, in a series.
adv
Second from the last in serial order.
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= antepenult, antepenultima
adj
Archaic spelling of antepenultimate. [Two before the last, i.e., the one immediately before the penultimate, in a series.]
n
(linguistics) A word that is accented on the penultimate syllable.
n
(rhetoric) A rhetorical scheme in which parallel elements possess the same number of words or syllables..
adj
(now chiefly UK) Penultimate, next to last, immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.
adj
(now rare, poetic) Last, final.
adj
(particularly US) Penultimate, one before the end of a series, placed immediately before the end in a sequence.
adj
Alternative form of next to last [(particularly US) Penultimate, one before the end of a series, placed immediately before the end in a sequence.]
adj
(prosody) Of or relating to words whose stress falls on the penultimate syllable
n
The next to the last in a series.
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of or belonging to the next to the last syllable in a word
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Alternative spelling of paenultima law [(linguistics and orthoëpy, sometimes “the paenultima law of accentuation”) The rule of Classical Latin pronunciation which states that a word receives antepenultimate stress if its penult is a short or metrically light syllable, but receives penultimate stress if its penult is a long or metrically heavy syllable.]
n
(obsolete, rare) The penultimate day of a month.
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Synonym of antepenultimate
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(Ancient Greek grammar, of a word) Having a perispomene on the last syllable.
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The last syllable but three (of a word or other utterance); the fourth-to-last syllable.
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(poetry) The last syllable but three (of a word or other utterance); the fourth-to-last syllable.
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(chiefly phonetics, obsolete, rare) preantepenult
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(rare) Synonym of antepenultimate: two places before last.
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(rare) The last syllable but four; the fifth-to-last syllable (of a word or other utterance); a word’s or other utterance’s propreantepenultimate syllable.
adj
(rare) The last syllable but four (of a word or other utterance).
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Archaic spelling of preantepenultima. [(poetry) The last syllable but three (of a word or other utterance); the fourth-to-last syllable.]
adj
Archaic spelling of penultimate. [(UK, in US usually formal, literary or scholarly) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.]
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(uncommon) Alternative form of second to last [Penultimate, next to last, immediately preceding the end of a sequence or list.]
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Penultimate, next to last, immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.
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Penultimate, next to last, immediately preceding the end of a sequence or list.
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Alternative form of second last [Penultimate, next to last, immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.]
adj
Alternative form of second to last [Penultimate, next to last, immediately preceding the end of a sequence or list.]
adv
Almost finally; penultimately.
adj
Synonym of antepenultimate
adj
Synonym of antepenultimate
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The final (ultimate) syllable of a word or other utterance.
adv
Abbreviation of ultimo (of last month). [Of last month.]
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(grammar, prosody, countable) The final syllable of a word.
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(of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
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(obsolete, rare) = ultimum
adv
Contraction of ultimo (of last month). [Of last month.]
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