ADJECTIVE
- third from last
NOUN
- the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end
How To Use antepenultimate In A Sentence
- Moreover, in the antepenultimate chapter of the novel, when the narrator reflects on his project, he intimates that he has been writing a novel all along.
- Afficionados and adepts will recognize the last item as the words of Joel Beinin, the antepenultimate item as the words of Mahatma Gandhi, and the penultimate item as the motto of Faber College in Animal House.
- This, as the copy editor Steve Pickering liked to say, is the antepenultimate paragraph.
- Antepenultimate accentuation only ever surfaces in words with enclitic extensions like *-sa and *-ta. Update of my "Diachrony of Pre-IE" document
- West African speakers tend to have antepenultimate word stress.
- The word for "fourth to last" is preantepenultimate. Alien Loves Predator
- So, like I said already, primary stress accent in Mid IE was much like in Polish and fell on the penultimate syllable (second-from-last syllable) by default unless a suffix was derived from an Old IE agglutinated enclitic in which case the antepenultimate (third-from-last syllable) was chosen. Sporadic phonetic changes in the Indo-European case system
- Paradoxically, the sagacious and shrewdly written new column entitled ‘Nightmarch’ is hidden away at the bottom of the antepenultimate page.
- Paradoxically, the sagacious and shrewdly written new column entitled ‘Nightmarch’ is hidden away at the bottom of the antepenultimate page.
- Someone else wrote, asking me to clarify whether I meant 'third from the end' or 'fourth from the end' in the definition of the word preantepenultimate. OUPblog