Antepenultimate

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  • adjective. Coming before the next to the last in a series.
  • noun. An antepenult.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Word Usage
    "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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