Penultimate means next-to-last, and "penultimate stress" in phonetics refers to stress in a word falling on the penultimate syllable. In other words, a word carrying penultima…te stress is a word that is stressed on the next to the last syllable, e.g. he-li-COP-ter, AF-ter, fan-TAS-tic, etc. (MORE)
It basically just means the 'second to last' one. For example if iwas to say, "it was the penultimate episode of the series", I'mbasically saying that the episode was the seco…nd to last episode inthe series. (MORE)
The definition of "penultimate" is next to last or second to last.In chemistry, when dealing with atoms each atom has shells thatfill with electrons. The penultimate shell wou…ld be the shell thatis below the last shell. (MORE)
In the Penultimate Peril, Violet, Klaus and Sunny go to live in the Denouement Hotel, where they get given a trial to decide whether they are good or evil..
I'm not going to …tell you anymore because if you are asking this question you have obviuosly never read it, so I won't give anything else away. (MORE)
That depends on how many of the final syllables have to match for a word or phrase to be considered rhyming. As a general rule of thumb, any string of syllables which is rough…ly the same length as a given string and ends in the same consonant cluster-vowel cluster or vowel cluster-consonant cluster can be considered rhyming, so, for the word 'penultimate' (usually pronounced either [pɪ'nÉl'tɪmɪt] or [pɪ'nÉl'tɪmɪt] or [pɪ'nÉl'tɪmÉt]) , any word or phrase consisting of at least 3 syllables and ending in, depending on the pronunciation of 'penultimate', either [Ét] or [ɪt] would constitute a rhyme. Some examples would include "Should I get..." (some dialects mach [ɪt], others [Ét]), "baseball mitt" (most, if not all, dialects match [ɪt]), "I haven't met" (some match [Ét], others [ɪt]), and "to place a bet" (most dialects match [Ét]). (MORE)