Crossword-Solution: PENULT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Penult | n. | The last syllable but one of a word; the syllable preceding the final one. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PENULT | anagram | NTUPLE |
We have 17 clues for the answer “PENULT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Next-to-last item | 1 answer |
| last syllable but one in a word | 1 answer |
| Word's next-to-last syllable | 1 answer |
| Word's next to last syllable | 1 answer |
| The last but one. | 1 answer |
| Syllable before the last | 1 answer |
| Second-to-last item in a list | 1 answer |
| Psi or Y, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Next-to-last syllable | 1 answer |
| Next to the last. | 1 answer |
| Next to the last syllable. | 1 answer |
| Next to the last syllable of a word. | 1 answer |
| NEXT to last | 2 answers |
| Last but one | 2 answers |
| LAST syllable but one (of a word) | 2 answers |
| LAST but one syllable | 3 answers |
| penultimate | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PENULT (5)
The poet follows Milton’s accentuation of the word “Cambuscan”, on the penult; it’s properly accented on the ultimate.
Petersburg, then the proper spelling is "Rezanov," the accent on the penult, and the "v" pronounced like "ff." For metrical purposes Bret Harte has here taken the same kind of liberty with "Resanoff," and in another poem with Portolá, as Byron took with Trafálgar, in Childe Harold.
This term (properly, though not commonly, accented upon the penult), was introduced by Beard to designate the large class of over-worked and worried who crowded his consulting room.
Nouns in -ius and -ium, until after the beginning of the reign of Augustus (31 B.C.), regularly formed the Genitive Singular in -i (instead of -iī); as,-- _Nom._ ingenium fīlius _Gen._ ingénī fīlī These Genitives accent the penult, even when it is short.
Pid., _Cantar de mío Cid_, I, 65 f.] _(b)_ A word stressed on the penult may assonate with one page lx stressed on the antepenult.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 22 times in crossword archives (1952–2018).