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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.
Available examples
8 YouTube examples
Real speech example
Ricardo Semler: Radical wisdom for a company, a school, a life 21 minutesthis penultimate day of TED.
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

Ricardo Semler: Radical wisdom for a company, a school, a life 21 minutes

this penultimate day of TED.

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:

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