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Final   /fˈaɪnəl/   Listen
Final

adjective
1.
Occurring at or forming an end or termination.  Synonyms: concluding, last, terminal.  "The final chapter" , "The last days of the dinosaurs" , "Terminal leave"
2.
Conclusive in a process or progression.  Synonyms: last, net.  "A last resort" , "The net result"
3.
Not to be altered or undone.  Synonym: last.  "The arbiter will have the last say"
noun
1.
The final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament.
2.
An examination administered at the end of an academic term.  Synonyms: final exam, final examination.



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"Final" Quotes from Famous Books



... history of the state. He is chiefly remembered however, for his Dictionary of Americanisms (1848), a pioneer work, which, although later dialect changes have, of course, deprived it of completeness or final authoritativeness, is still of value to students of language and remains the chief contribution to the subject. He died in Providence on the 28th of ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 - "Banks" to "Bassoon" • Various
... indirect taxation from which the Federal Revenues are now mainly derived. Meanwhile the Cardinal Archbishop of Baltimore, who is also a political supporter of President Cleveland, has not yet been confronted by the supreme authority at Rome with such a final sentence upon the true nature of Mr. George's "exclusive taxation of land," as the clear-sighted Archbishop of New York is said to be seeking to obtain from the Holy Office. What the end will be I have little ...
— Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) • William Henry Hurlbert
... land for the French during their advance had been Moscow, during their retreat it was their native land. But that native land was too far off, and for a man going a thousand miles it is absolutely necessary to set aside his final goal and to say to himself: "Today I shall get to a place twenty-five miles off where I shall rest and spend the night," and during the first day's journey that resting place eclipses his ultimate goal and attracts all his hopes and desires. ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... The final row consists of open picots, formed of 5 chain stitches and 1 plain, between each cluster stitch; after the last of these stitches and in the indent of the scallops on the straight line, only 2 chain stitches and 1 plain ...
— Encyclopedia of Needlework • Therese de Dillmont
... is therefore concerned with all that is least generic, least specific, all that is most intimately personal and individual, in sexual selection. It is the final point in which the decreasing circle of sexual attractiveness is fixed. In the widest and most abstract form sexual selection in man is merely human, and we are attracted to that which bears most fully the marks of humanity; in a less abstract ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis


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