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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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adj
Next to last, second to last.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: nonstandard, not-comparable, possibly, rare
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Synonyms: penultimate
Antonyms: none provided
History
From fore- + last. In some instances of more recent use, perhaps also a calque of German vorletzte or Dutch voorlaatst.
