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antepenultimate
Meaning: third from the last item in a series or list
antepenultimate in a sentence
How antepenultimate is used in real sentences:
In 'happiness', the antepenultimate syllable carries a stress most speakers barely notice.
Reading the antepenultimate chapter, she realized only two more sections remained before the novel's ending.
“To test whether service deteriorated near closing, auditors compared morning cases with each day's antepenultimate transaction, excluding the final two because shutdown procedures distorted them.”
— from the passage Waiting by Design
“In the appendix, the antepenultimate table recorded people with two plausible homes, followed only by institutional residents and unresolved addresses.”
— from the passage Who Counts in Dockside
“Vale nevertheless noticed that the antepenultimate leaf, unlike those around it, bore a watermark associated with nineteenth-century paper mills.”
— from the passage The Disputed Leaves
Synonyms for antepenultimate
Other words for antepenultimate — third-last and prepenultimate — carry the same meaning.
- third-last
- prepenultimate
Where it comes from
From Latin antepaenultimus 'before the next-to-last'
Word parts
- ante — before, previous
antepenultimate: ante- (before) + paen (almost) + ultim (last)
Memory hook
ANTE (before) + PENULTIMATE (second-to-last) — one before the second-to-last, i.e. third-to-last.
Practice antepenultimate in the app