antepenultimate
Use Antepenultimate in a sentence
ti noun
3.
an antepenult.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | third from last |
| —n | |
| 2. | anything that is third from last |
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Antepenultimate
has a plethora of syllables.
So is antidisestablishmentarianism. Does it mean:
| opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England. |
| a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, powerful high explosive, C3H6N6O6, used chiefly in bombs and shells. |
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Word Origin & History
antepenultimate
1730, "the last but two," from antepenult (n.), 1610s, abbreviation of L. antepaenultima, from antepaenultimus, from ante "before" + paenultima, from paen "almost" + ultima "last" (see ultimate).
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Example sentences
Antepenultimate- coming before the next to the last in any series.
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