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adjective
1.
Immediately past.  "The last chapter we read"
2.
Coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining.  "The last day of the month" , "Had the last word" , "Waited until the last minute" , "He raised his voice in a last supreme call" , "The last game of the season" , "Down to his last nickel"
3.
Occurring at or forming an end or termination.  Synonyms: concluding, final, terminal.  "The final chapter" , "The last days of the dinosaurs" , "Terminal leave"
4.
Most unlikely or unsuitable.  "The last man they would have chosen for the job"
5.
Occurring at the time of death.  "The last rites"
6.
Conclusive in a process or progression.  Synonyms: final, net.  "A last resort" , "The net result"
7.
Highest in extent or degree.  Synonym: utmost.  "Whether they were accomplices in the last degree or a lesser one was...to be determined individually"
8.
Not to be altered or undone.  Synonym: final.  "The arbiter will have the last say"
9.
Lowest in rank or importance.  Synonyms: last-place, lowest.  "In last place"
verb
(past & past part. lasted; pres. part. lasting)
1.
Persist for a specified period of time.  Synonym: endure.
2.
Continue to live through hardship or adversity.  Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, live, live on, survive.  "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America" , "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents" , "How long can a person last without food and water?"
noun
1.
The temporal end; the concluding time.  Synonyms: close, conclusion, finale, finis, finish, stopping point.  "The market was up at the finish" , "They were playing better at the close of the season"
2.
The last or lowest in an ordering or series.  "He finished an inglorious last"
3.
A person's dying act; the final thing a person can do.
4.
The time at which life ends; continuing until dead.  Synonym: death.  "A struggle to the last"
5.
A unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds.
6.
A unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels.
7.
The concluding parts of an event or occurrence.  Synonyms: end, final stage.  "I had to miss the last of the movie"
8.
Holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes.  Synonyms: cobbler's last, shoemaker's last.
adverb
1.
Most_recently.
2.
The item at the end.  Synonyms: finally, in conclusion, lastly.



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"Last" Quotes from Famous Books



... the last twelve or fifteen years of Rothschild's life (says Grant) was ever able, for any length of time, to compete with him in the money market, he on several occasions was, in single transactions, outwitted by the superior tactics ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury

... what the end would be to such an affair. Nobody likes to be called a coward—especially when he knows he is not one. So, at last, Lincoln consented to "rassle" with Jack Armstrong. They met, with all the boys as spectators. They wrestled, and tugged, and clenched, but without result. Both young fellows were equally matched in strength. "It's no use, Jack," Lincoln at last declared. ...
— Heroes Every Child Should Know • Hamilton Wright Mabie

... the two women, in their silence, at last—he at all events thought of Milly—as probably, for her reasons, now intensely wishing him to go. The cold breath of her reasons was, with everything else, in the air; but he didn't care for them any more than for ...
— The Wings of the Dove, Volume II • Henry James

... and last part of the Origins of Contemporary France is to consist of two volumes. After the present volume, the second is to treat of the Church, the School and the Family, describe the modern milieu and note the facilities and obstacles which a ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 5 (of 6) - The Modern Regime, Volume 1 (of 2)(Napoleon I.) • Hippolyte A. Taine

... back to the castle, the saved lying on the sledge, the savior drawing it; the wind was behind them now, and blew them along. And when the old man, weary and numb with cold, reached the ladder at last, helped Waring, lame and irritable, up to the little snow-covered balcony, and led the way to Silver's room,—when Silver, hearing the step, raised herself in the arms of the old slave and looked eagerly, not at him, no, but ...
— Castle Nowhere • Constance Fenimore Woolson


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