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avant-dernier — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • penultimate adj Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.

Senses

avant-dernier is used for these senses in English:

  • penultimate (UK, in, _, US, _, usually, formal) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.
  • penultimate (obsolete, rare) The penultimate day of a month.

penultimate — full definition

  1. adj Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.
  2. adj Of or pertaining to a penult.
  3. adj Relating to or denoting an element of a related collection of curves that is arbitrarily close to a degenerate form.
  4. adj pre-eminent, ultimate, best; par excellence, top-quality

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