last
Part of speech: adj
det
adv
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English laste, latst, syncopated variant of latest, both ultimately from Old English latost. Doublet of latest.
Inflected forms:
form: lasts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lasting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lasted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lasted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Will try to fix it by myself for now: as a last resort, we can always take it to a grease monkey.
Eyes Wide Shut was the last film to be directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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.
gloss: Most recent, latest, last so far.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The last time I saw him, he was married.
I have received your note dated the 17th last, and am responding to say that[…]
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.
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year.
gloss: Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He is the last person to be accused of theft.
The last person I want to meet is Helen.
More rain is the last thing we need right now.
gloss: Being the only one remaining of its class.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Japan is the last empire.
gloss: Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Contending for principles of the last importance.
gloss: Lowest in rank or degree.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Three contestants will win awards, but the last prize is just a book voucher.
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
gloss: The (one) immediately before the present.
pos: det
examples: We went there last year.
I was last to go; you're next.
gloss: Closest in the past, or closest but one if the closest was very recent; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) ago, or the most recent instance before seven days (one week) ago.
pos: det
examples: It's Wednesday, and the party was last Tuesday; that is, not yesterday, but eight days ago.
When you say last Monday, do you mean the Monday just gone, or the one before that?
Where my brother had stood last night, I now stood.
gloss: Most recently.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: When we last met, he was based in Toronto.
How long is't now since last yourself and I / Were in a mask?
gloss: after everything else; finally
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
sequence
examples: As I arrived last of all, I'll go last to add the butter last.
last but not least
Pleased with his idol, he commends, admires, / Adores; and, last, the thing adored desires.
gloss: To endure, continue over time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Summer seems to last longer each year.
They seem happy now, but that won't last long.
They say this blizzard might last (for) days.
And love will last as pure and whole
⁠As when he loved me here in Time,
⁠And at the spiritual prime
Rewaken with the dawning soul.
Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…].
One of the earliest (and biggest) space weather events on record occurred in September 1859, when a massive solar eruption crashed into the Earth's magnetosphere, triggering a geomagnetic storm that lasted for days.
gloss: To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I don't know how much longer we can last without reinforcements.
gloss: To purposefully refrain from orgasm
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
gloss: To perform, carry out.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: A tool in the form of a foot on which an item of footwear (such as a boot or shoe) is placed for shaping while it is being manufactured or repaired.
pos: noun
examples: I muſt to the learned to learne of them, that's as much to ſay, as the Taylor muſt meddle vvith his Laſte, the Shoomaker vvith his needle, the Painter vvith his nets, and the Fiſher vvith his Penſill, I muſt to the learned.
Here's gallants of all ſizes, of all laſts, / Here you may fit your foote, make choyſe of thoſe / VVhome your affection may reioyce in.
Shoomaker, you goe alittle beyond your laſt.
And leſſe matters ſet on the Friers laſts, make ſeely Papiſts beleeue novv, that Proteſtants haue no Churches nor Religion, nor ſcarſely the ſhape of men.
Is he not Duke indeed, ſee hovv he lookes / As if his ſpirit vvere a laſt, or tvvo / Above his veines, and ſtretcht his noble hide.
I ſet my braines vpon an vpright Laſt; tho my vvits be old, yet they are like a vvitherd pippin, vvholſome.
Let firm, vvell-hammer'd Soles protect thy Feet / Thro' freezing Snovvs, and Rains, and ſoaking Sleet. / Should the big Laſte extend the Shoe too vvide, / Each Stone vvill vvrench th' unvvary Step aſide: […]
Occasionally, there is a drowsy sound from some lone weaver's shuttle, or shoemaker's last, but it is stifled by the thick walls and heavy dungeon-door, and only serves to make the general stillness more profound.
How is an in-your-face black leather thigh-high lace-up boot with a four-inch spike heel like a man's black calf lace-up oxford? They are both made on a last, the wood or plastic foot-shaped form that leather is stretched over and shaped to make a shoe.
Synonyms: lastly
continue
endure
survive
Antonyms: disintegrate
dissipate
fall apart
wear out
Related words: everlasting
lasting
Derived words: 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
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
last-born
lastborn
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
last last
last man standing
last meal
last-mentioned
last mile
last mile school
last-minute
last minute
last moment
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
last refuge
last resort
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 universal common 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
seven last words
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
darning last
everlast
lastability
lastable
outlast
unlast
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