penultimate
/pɪˈnʌltɪmət/
adjective
- Second to last in a series or order.
- The penultimate chapter of the book reveals the killer's identity.
- We are on the penultimate day of our vacation, so we should make it count.
- She finished in penultimate place in the race, just ahead of the last runner.
noun
- The second-to-last item in a series; also, the second-to-last syllable in a word.
- He crossed out the penultimate and rewrote the final sentence.
- The stress falls on the penultimate in many English words.
- In the list, the penultimate is the one before the last.