Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Coming before the next to the last in a series.
- noun An antepenult.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Immediately preceding that one of a series which is next to the last one; being the third from the last of a series: as, the antepenultimate joint of a limb.
- Pertaining to the last syllable but two.
- noun The antepenultima.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Two before the last, i.e., the one immediately before the
penultimate , in a series. - adjective Last but two; third from last.
- noun Two before the last in a
series . e.g. (..., antepenultimate, penultimate, ultimate) - noun The
syllable that comes two before the last in a word.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end
- adjective third from last
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The word is "antepenultimate", not "antipenultimate". (i.e., it's "the one before the one before the last" ... not "not the one before the last") 3.
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Now of course a black or liberal vote is worth as much as any other vote come Election Day, but the "support" to which Rothenberg refers in the antepenultimate quoted paragraph is support in approval polls, which are in themselves meaningless.
Ruthless People James Taranto 2011
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In the antepenultimate episode of Mad Men's very eventful Season 4, the pile-driving plot machinations of the previous episode have ground events into their trajectories.
William Bradley: Mad Men: Breach One "Chinese Wall' and You Just Want to Breach Another One an Hour Later William Bradley 2010
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In the antepenultimate episode of Mad Men's very eventful Season 4, the pile-driving plot machinations of the previous episode have ground events into their trajectories.
William Bradley: Mad Men: Breach One "Chinese Wall' and You Just Want to Breach Another One an Hour Later William Bradley 2010
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In the antepenultimate episode of Mad Men's very eventful Season 4, the pile-driving plot machinations of the previous episode have ground events into their trajectories.
William Bradley: Mad Men : Breach One "Chinese Wall" and You Just Want To Breach Another One An Hour Later William Bradley 2010
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I have just finished the antepenultimate bunch – so seven repeats, more or less, will finish edging the centre, then there will be 13 or 14 on the second edge of the border.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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I finished row 40 of the antepenultimate (11th) complete pattern repeat of the Princess centre.
Archive 2009-02-01 Jean 2009
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This has nothing to do with me getting the antepenultimate train into London to ensure that there is no repeat of last week's fiasco, when my last train into London was cancelled and there was no OBO as a result.
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I have just finished the antepenultimate bunch – so seven repeats, more or less, will finish edging the centre, then there will be 13 or 14 on the second edge of the border.
Archive 2009-06-01 Jean 2009
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In the antepenultimate episode of Mad Men's very eventful Season 4, the pile-driving plot machinations of the previous episode have ground events into their trajectories.
William Bradley: Mad Men : Breach One 'Chinese Wall' and You Just Want to Breach Another One an Hour Later William Bradley 2010
reesetee commented on the word antepenultimate
third from the end
February 23, 2007
alguien commented on the word antepenultimate
Which reminded me to add proparoxytone.
March 26, 2007
reesetee commented on the word antepenultimate
Good one, alguien! Thanks.
March 27, 2007
jmjarmstrong commented on the word antepenultimate
JM is eager to use an antepenultimate word soon.
November 26, 2009