last
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: läst
ipa: /lɑːst/
enpr: lăst
ipa: /læst/
ipa: /last/
ipa: /ɫast/
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -æst
Etymology: From Middle English laste, latst, syncopated variant of latest.
Senses: examples: text: Eyes Wide Shut was the last film to be directed by Stanley Kubrick.
text: Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
examples: text: The last time I saw him, he was married.
raw_tags: archaic usage
text: I have received your note dated the 17th last, and am responding to say that[…]
text: She told him the last news about little Georgy, and how he was gone to spend that very day with his sisters in the country.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year.
ref: 2013 May 25, “No Hiding Place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
glosses: Most recent, latest, last so far.
examples: text: He is the last person to be accused of theft.
text: The last person I want to meet is Helen.
text: More rain is the last thing we need right now.
glosses: Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
examples: text: Japan is the last empire.
glosses: Being the only one remaining of its class.
examples: text: Contending for principles of the last importance.
ref: 1802, Robert Hall, Reflections on War:
glosses: Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
examples: text: Three contestants will win awards, but the last prize is just a book voucher.
text: In one word then, unless I could unfold the mystery, I will not wish you to consider me but as the last and lowest of mankind.
ref: 1797 May 8 (first performance), Richard Cumberland, “The Last of the Family. A Comedy.”, in Frances Marianne [Cumberland] Jansen, editor, The Posthumous Dramatick Works of the Late Richard Cumberland, Esq. […], volume II, London: […] [F]or G[eorge] and W[illiam] Nicol, […]; by W[illiam] Bulmer and Co., […], published 1813, →OCLC, Act III, scene [iii], page 237:
text: The whole community from the patrician master to the last beggar knew that in the five months when the generous bosom of the steppe throbbed with creative life, they must toil for the subsistence of all […]
ref: 1899, Richard Savage, The White Lady of Khaminavatka: A Story of the Ukraine, page 186:
text: Lesser, but still important executives had offices without corner windows. The rank below this had offices without windows at all. […] The last rank had desks out in an open room.
ref: 1970, Julius Fast, Body Language, →ISBN, page 39:
text: Russia is a very different place than here. […] Even the last soldier knows who Malevich was, and what the Black Square is, since they were taught this in school.
ref: 2003 March 31, Marko Peljhan, “Lecture: March 31, 2003”, in Jen Budney, Adrian Blackwell, editors, Unboxed Engagements in Social Space, published 2005, →ISBN, page 110:
glosses: Lowest in rank or degree.
Synonyms: sense: final
english: at the end, on the tail end
translation: at the end, on the tail end
alt: "the last one"
word: rear, rearmost, caboose, dernier, final, terminal, ultimate, lattermost;
sense: most recent
word: latest
sense: most recent
word: most recent
Derived terms: at last
at long last
at the last
at the last minute
at the last moment
be born last week
belay my last
born at night but not last night
breathe one's last
breathe one's last breath
close one's eyes for the last time
come down in the last shower
court of last resort
darning last
dead last
die in the last ditch
draw one's last breath
drug of last resort
every last
fall at the last hurdle
famous last words
Fermat's last theorem
first and last
forelast
for the last time
first to last
get on someone's last nerve
get the last laugh
have seen one's last gum tree
have the last laugh
hear the last of
he laughs best that laughs last
he who laughs last laughs best
he who laughs last laughs hardest
I can't remember the last time
if it's the last thing I do
in the last analysis
laglast
last 16
last antecedent rule
last big thing
lastborn
last-born
last burst of fire
last but one
last call
last cast
last chance saloon
last chicken in the shop
last common ancestor
last dance
last day
last ditch
last-ditch
last-ditcher
last eight
last four
last frontier
last full measure
last-gasp
last gasp
last honors
last honours
last hoorah
last hurrah
last I checked
last I heard
last in first out
last kilometre
last known good
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last man standing
last meal
last-mentioned
last mile
last mile school
last-minute
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last nail in the coffin
last name
last-named
lastness
last night
last of the big spenders
last orders
last out
last parsec problem
last photon orbit
last post
last quarter
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last respects
last rites
last roundup
last scattering surface
last sixteen
last stand
last straw
last survivor
last thing
last thing one needs
last-time
last time
last time I checked
last trump
last trumpet
last universal ancestor
last week
last will
last will and testament
last word
last-wordism
last words
last year
lender of last resort
letter of last resort
let the cobbler stick to his last
next-to-last
next to last
nice guys finish last
one's last
on one's last legs
pay one's last respects
put the last hand to
save the best for last
second-from-last
second from last
second-last
second last
second to last
second-to-last
the last of
the last day
the last favour
the last I heard
the last of pea-time
the night before last
the pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last
third last
third to last
too good to last
to the last
to the last man
trade-last
until the last dog is hung
what did your last slave die of
who was your servant last year
with one's last breath
you're only as good as your last shift