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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Coming before the next to the last in a series.
  2. n. An antepenult.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Immediately preceding that one of a series which is next to the last one; being the third from the last of a series: as, the antepenultimate joint of a limb.
  2. Pertaining to the last syllable but two.
  3. n. The antepenultima.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Two before the last, i.e., the one immediately before the penultimate, in a series.
  2. adj. Last but two; third from last.
  3. n. Two before the last in a series. e.g. (..., antepenultimate, penultimate, ultimate)
  4. n. The syllable that comes two before the last in a word.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end
  2. adj. third from last

Etymologies

  1. ante- meaning before, pen- from the Latin paene meaning almost, and ultimate from the Latin ultimus meaning last (Wiktionary)
  2. From Late Latin antepaenultimus : Latin ante-, ante- + Latin paenultimus, next to last; see penult. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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