English to English
last
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adjective (a)
- coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining(adj.all)Example:
The last time I saw Paris.
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.
source: wordnet30 - of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.(adjective)source: webster1913
- Being after all the others, similarly classed or considered, in time, place, or order of succession; following all the rest; final; hindmost; farthest; as, the last year of a century; the last man in a line of soldiers; the last page in a book; his last chance.(adjective)source: webster1913
noun (n)
- the temporal end; the concluding time(noun.time)source: wordnet30
- the last or lowest in an ordering or series(noun.linkdef)Example:
He was the last to leave.
He finished an inglorious last.
source: wordnet30 - a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do(noun.act)Example:
He breathed his last.
source: wordnet30 - the time at which life ends; continuing until dead(noun.time)Example:
A struggle to the last.
source: wordnet30 - a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds(noun.quantity)source: wordnet30
- a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels(noun.quantity)source: wordnet30
- the concluding parts of an event or occurrence(noun.event)Example:
I had to miss the last of the movie.
source: wordnet30 - holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes(noun.artifact)source: wordnet30
- A wooden block shaped like the human foot, on which boots and shoes are formed.(noun)source: webster1913
- A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure, generally estimated at 4,000 lbs., but varying for different articles and in different countries. In England, a last of codfish, white herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs; of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers; of pitch and tar, fourteen barrels; of wool, twelve sacks; of flax or feathers, 1,700 lbs.(noun)source: webster1913
adverb (r)
- most_recently(adv.all)Example:
I saw him last in London.
source: wordnet30 - the item at the end(adv.all)Example:
Last, I'll discuss family values.
source: wordnet30 - At a time or on an occasion which is the latest of all those spoken of or which have occurred; the last time; as, I saw him last in New York.(adverb)source: webster1913
adjective satellite (s)
- immediately past(adj.all)Example:
Last Thursday.
The last chapter we read.
source: wordnet30 - occurring at or forming an end or termination(adj.all)Example:
The last days of the dinosaurs.
source: wordnet30 - most unlikely or unsuitable(adj.all)Example:
The last person we would have suspected.
The last man they would have chosen for the job.
source: wordnet30 - occurring at the time of death(adj.all)Example:
His last words.
The last rites.
source: wordnet30 - highest in extent or degree(adj.all)Example:
To the last measure of human endurance.
Whether they were accomplices in the last degree or a lesser one was...to be determined individually.
source: wordnet30 - not to be altered or undone(adj.all)Example:
The arbiter will have the last say.
source: wordnet30 - lowest in rank or importance(adj.all)Example:
Last prize.
In last place.
source: wordnet30
verb (v)
- persist for a specified period of time(verb.stative)Example:
The bad weather lasted for three days.
source: wordnet30 - To continue in time; to endure; to remain in existence.(verb)source: webster1913
- To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last; as, to last a boot.(verb)source: webster1913