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Definitions: Penultimate |
PenultimateAdjective1. Next to the last; "the author inadvertently reveals the murderer in the penultimate chapter"; "the figures in the next-to-last column". Noun1. The next to last syllable in a word. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "penultimate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references) |
Synonyms: PenultimateSynonyms: next-to-last (adj), penult (n), penultima (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: next-to-last (general). |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
1. Next to last. 2. Linguistics. Of or relating to the penult of a word: penultimate stress.[From Latin paenultimus. See penult.]
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Penultimate."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
End | Ended; Verb: at an end; settled, decided, over, played out, set at rest; conclusive. penultimate; last but one, last but two; unbegun, uncommenced; fresh. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Penultimate |
| English words defined with "penultimate": junior class ♦ next-to-last ♦ Propodite. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "penultimate": base-level plain, baseleveled plain ♦ denudation plain ♦ Histidinol ♦ peneplain, peneplane ♦ spermatids, strath terrace. (references) |
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| "Penultimate" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.28% of the time. "Penultimate" is used about 106 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 95.28% | 101 | 32,488 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.77% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.94% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 106 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "penultimate": penultimate accent. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "penultimate": pre-penultimate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
penultimate | 39 |
penultimate ranma | 13 |
fanfic index penultimate ranma | 4 |
archive fanfic penultimate ranma | 3 |
penultimate riddle | 2 |
index penultimate ranma | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "penultimate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | parafundor, rrokje parafundore (penult), i parafundit (last, last but one). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متعلق بالمقطع قبل الأخير, قبل الأخير. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | предпоследен (before last, last but one, penult). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | '数第二. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | předposlední slabika, předposlední (last but one, the last but one). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | voorlaatst (last but one, next to last). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | یکی به اخرمانده(penult), ماقبل اخر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pénultième, avant-dernier, avant-dernière syllabe, avant-dernière. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Vorletzt (last but one, next to last). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παραλήγων, παραλήγουσα (penult). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לפ י אחרון. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | utolsó előtti (last but one, penult, second last). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | penultimo (last but one, second-last). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sheeley lieh-yerrinagh, lieh-yerrinagh (semifinal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enultimatepay penúltimo (last day, Penumbra). (various references) penultima, penultim, silabã penultimã. (various references) предпоследний (last but one, next to the last, penult). (various references) pretposlednji (before last, last but one, next-to-last, penult). (various references) penúltimo. (various references) penultima (penult), näst sista (last but one). (various references) sondan bir önceki hece (penult), sondan bir önceki (last but one). (various references) передостанній склад (penult), передостанній (last but one, penult). (various references) giáp cuối (penult), âm giáp cuối (penult). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "penultimate": penultimately. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "penultimate": antepenultimate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "penultimate": antepenultimates. (additional references) | |
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"Penultimate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: panultimate, penaltriate, pentultimate, peultimate, pnultimate, prenultimate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-m-n-p-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: penultima. | |
-3 letters: mantelet, melanite, mutilate, palmette, patulent, petaline, petulant, platinum, tapeline, template, tinplate, tumpline, ultimate. | |
-4 letters: ailment, aliment, alumine, alunite, amputee, elapine, empanel, emplane, emulate, entitle, epaulet, etamine, impanel, implant, lineate, lunette, maniple, mantlet, matinee, nuptial, nutmeat, palette, pantile, patient, peltate, penlite, petunia, pileate, pinetum, plumate, putamen, tapetum, teatime, teleman, templet, ulpanim, umpteen. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-l-m-n-p-t-t-u" | |
+2 letters: antepenultima, penultimately. | |
+3 letters: antepenultimas. | |
+4 letters: antepenultimate, supplementation. | |
+5 letters: antepenultimates, antiunemployment, supplementations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 6E 75 6C 74 69 6D 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . -. ..- .-.. - .. -- .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01101110 01110101 01101100 01110100 01101001 01101101 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e n u l t i m a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 006E 0075 006C 0074 0069 006D 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5071808778867579678671 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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