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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



... days of King Charles, though Jonson was not without royal favours; and the old poet returned to the stage, producing, between 1625 and 1633, "The Staple of News," "The New Inn," "The Magnetic Lady," and "The Tale of a Tub," the last doubtless revised from a much earlier comedy. None of these plays met with any marked success, although the scathing generalisation of Dryden that designated them "Jonson's dotages" is unfair to their genuine merits. Thus the idea of an office for the gathering, proper dressing, and promulgation ...
— Every Man Out Of His Humour • Ben Jonson

... of the chapters upon the Hygiene of the several portions of the system, it is advised that the instructor give a lecture reviewing the anatomy, physiology, and hygiene, of the topic last considered. This may be followed by a general examination of the class upon the same subject. By this course a clear and definite knowledge of the mutual relation of the Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene, of different parts of the ...
— A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) • Calvin Cutter

... dreary reality, made up of a dismal succession of marches and counter-marches, parades and bivouackings, attacks and repulses, privations of every description, with the prospective of defeat at the last. But to Cary Singleton the war had been, up to the present, a constant scene of pleasurable excitement, as he will have occasion to testify himself in a subsequent chapter, while from this point to its close it rose with him to the proportions ...
— The Bastonnais - Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 • John Lesperance

... Thus, so much as it is necessary for the moral destination of man, that he be purely moral, that he shows an absolute personal activity, so much is he indifferent that his physical destination be entirely physical, that he acts in a manner entirely passive. Henceforth with regard to this last destination, it entirely depends on him to fulfil it solely as a sensuous being and natural force (as a force which acts only as it diminishes) or, at the same time, as absolute force, as a rational being. To ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

... see that you are—that's it, smile! Nance, you are a dear, when you smile—you make a man feel so strong and protecting. But if you knew all the queer things I've thought in the last week about time and people and the world. This morning I woke up mad because I'd been cheated out of the past. Where is all the past, Nance? There's just as much past somewhere as there is future—if ...
— The Seeker • Harry Leon Wilson


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