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How to pronounce “penultimate”
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Pronunciation guide for penultimate
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of penultimate with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Steal like an Artist
So the last, the penultimate chapter in my book has a section called "Marry well."
- Definition summary
- (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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How to pronounce penultimate
Steal like an Artist
So the last, the penultimate chapter in my book has a section called "Marry well."
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “penultimate”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- (UK, in US usually formal, literary or scholarly) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.
- (linguistics) Of or pertaining to a penult.
- (mathematics, rare) Relating to or denoting an element of a related collection of curves that is arbitrarily close to a degenerate form.
- (proscribed) pre-eminent, ultimate, best; par excellence, top-quality
- [Noun]
- (uncommon) A penult, a next to last, particularly:
Practice Nearby Words
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