PENULTIMATE Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com So if something’s penultimate, it’s “almost last”: more specifically, it’s next to last If you’re reading a book with 20 chapters, chapter 19 is the penultimate chapter
penultimate - Wiktionary, the free dictionary penultimate (not comparable) (UK, in US usually formal, literary or scholarly) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc
Penult - Wikipedia Penult is a linguistics term for the second-to-last syllable of a word It is an abbreviation of penultimate, which describes the next-to-last item in a series The penult follows the antepenult and precedes the ultima