Word Meanings - PENULT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The last syllable but one of a word; the syllable preceding the final one.

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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
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• FINAL
  1. Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term. Yet despair not of his final pardon. Milton. 2. Conclusive; decisive; as, a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a
• PRECEDENTED
  Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind. Walpole.
• PRECEDE
  1. To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything. "Harm precedes not sin." Milton. 2. To go before in place, rank, or importance. 3. To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the
• PRECEDENCE; PRECEDENCY
  1. The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another. 2. The act or state of going or being before in rank or dignity, or the place of honor; right to a more honorable place; superior
• PRECEDENTIAL
  Of the nature of a precedent; having force as an example for imitation; as, precedential transactions. All their actions in that time are not precedential to warrant posterity. Fuller.
• FINALIST
  Any of the players who meet in the final round of a tournament in which the losers in any round do not play again.
• PRECEDING
  In the direction toward which stars appear to move. See Following, 2. (more info) 1. Going before; -- opposed to following.
• FINALE
  Close; termination; as: The last movement of a symphony, sonata, concerto, or any instrumental composition. The last composition performed in any act of an opera. The closing part, piece, or scene in any public performance or exhibition.
• PRECEDENT
  Going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services. Shak. "A precedent injury." Bacon. Condition precedent , a condition which precede the vesting of an estate, or the accruing of a right.
• PRECEDANEOUS
  Preceding; antecedent; previous. Hammond.
• FINALLY
  1. At the end or conclusion; ultimately; lastly; as, the contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered. Whom patience finally must crown. Milton. 2. Completely; beyond recovery. Not any house of noble English in Ireland was utterly destroyed
• FINALITY
  1. The state of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement. Baxter. 2. The relation of end or purpose to its means. Janet.
• 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.
• AFFINAL
  Related by marriage; from the same source.
• UNPRECEDENTED
  Having no precedent or example; not preceded by a like case; not having the authority of prior example; novel; new; unexampled. -- Un*prec"e*dent*ed*ly, adv.
• SEXISYLLABLE
  A word of six syllables.
• MULTISYLLABLE
  A word of many syllables; a polysyllable. -- Mul`ti*syl*lab"ic, a.