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Word Meanings - PENULTIMATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Last but one; as, the penultimate syllable, the last syllable but one of a word.

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  • SYLLABLE
    1. An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked
  • PENULTIMATE
    Last but one; as, the penultimate syllable, the last syllable but one of a word.
  • ANTEPENULTIMATE
    Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two. -- n.
  • TRISYLLABLE
    A word consisting of three syllables only; as, a-ven-ger.
  • DISSYLLABLE
    A word of two syllables; as, pa-per.
  • QUINQUESYLLABLE
    A word of five syllables.
  • DODECASYLLABLE
    A word consisting of twelve syllables.
  • OCTOSYLLABLE
    Octosyllabic.
  • QUADRISYLLABLE
    A word consisting of four syllables. De Quincey.
  • HENDECASYLLABLE
    A metrical line of eleven syllables. J. Warton.
  • MONOSYLLABLE
    A word of one syllable.
  • SEXISYLLABLE
    A word of six syllables.
  • MULTISYLLABLE
    A word of many syllables; a polysyllable. -- Mul`ti*syl*lab"ic, a.
  • SEPTISYLLABLE
    A word of seven syllables.
  • POLYSYLLABLE
    A word of many syllables, or consisting of more syllables than three; -- words of less than four syllables being called monosyllables, dissyllables, and trisyllables.
  • TETRASYLLABLE
    A word consisting of four syllables; a quadrisyllable.
  • MONOSYLLABLED
    Formed into, or consisting of, monosyllables. Cleveland.

 

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