penultimate
suomi-englanti sanakirjapenultimate englannista suomeksi
viimeistä edellinen
toiseksi viimeinen tavu
penultimate englanniksi
to last|Next to last, to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.
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{{quote-text|en|year=1878|author=Butler (novelist)|Samuel Butler|title=Life and Habit|chapter=10
{{quote-text|en|year=1913|author=Jack London|title=The Valley of the Moon|chapter=3
Of or pertaining to a penult.
Relating to or denoting an element of a related collection of curves that is arbitrarily close to a degenerate form.
pre-eminent, ultimate, best; excellence, top-quality
1907 Burgess|Gelett Burgess ''Are You a Bromide?'' (New York: B. W. Heubsch) cover blurb:
- This Book is the Proud Purple Penultimate!!
2002 January, Claire Holt, "California Driving", ''Los Angeles'' (ISSN) volume 47 no 1 p. 84:
- This treatment, where two therapists massage the body using warm oils infused with plant extracts, is truly the penultimate experience.
{{quote-journal|en|date=February 10 2022|author=Ethan Marshall|title=Is written media dead?|titleurl=https://glasgowguardian.co.uk/2022/02/10/is-written-media-dead/|journal=The Glasgow Guardian
A penult, a to last, particularly:
{{quote-text|en|year=1962|title=Minutes of the Adjourned Meeting of 22nd Biennial Convention of the United Lutheran Church in America|section=XXII.iv
The penultimate day of a month.
1529 August 30, Bishop Stephen Gardiner, ''letter'' (1933), 33:
- At England|Woodstock, the penultimate of August.
The penultimate syllable of a word or metrical line.
{{quote-text|en|year=1728|author=E. Chambers|title=Cyclopædia
The penultimate element of a collection of curves.
The penultimate (to lowest) card in a suit.
{{quote-text|en|year=1876|author=Arthur Campbell-Walker|title=The Correct Card|section=Glossary page xiii
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