Usually means: Second to last in sequence.
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  1. penultimate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. penultimate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. penultimate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. penultimate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. penultimate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Penultimate, penultimate: Wordnik
  7. penultimate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. penultimate: Wiktionary
  9. penultimate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. penultimate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. penultimate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Penultimate, penultimate: Dictionary.com
  13. penultimate (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Penultimate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Penultimate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. penultimate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. penultimate: Rhymezone
  18. Penultimate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. penultimate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. penultimate: Free Dictionary
  21. penultimate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. penultimate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. penultimate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. penultimate: Legal dictionary

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  1. penultimate: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. penultimate: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. penultimate: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Penultimate: Croquet
  2. Penultimate: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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
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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