next-to-last

2 definitions found

next-to-last - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  next-to-last \next-to-last\ adj.
     next preceding the last; as, the figures in the next-to-last
     column. [Narrower terms: junior(prenominal), third-year]
  
     Syn: penultimate.
          [WordNet 1.5]

next-to-last - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  next-to-last
      adj 1: next to the last; "the author inadvertently reveals the
             murderer in the penultimate chapter"; "the figures in the
             next-to-last column" [syn: penultimate, next-to-last]
      2: used of the third or next to final year in United States high
         school or college; "the junior class"; "a third-year student"
         [syn: junior(a), third-year, next-to-last]