last
IPA: ɫˈæst
noun
- A tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes.
- (obsolete) A burden; load; a cargo; freight.
- (obsolete) A measure of weight or quantity, varying in designation depending on the goods concerned.
- (obsolete) An old English (and Dutch) measure of the carrying capacity of a ship, equal to two tons.
- A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) To endure, continue over time.
- (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
- (intransitive, slang, of a man) To purposefully refrain from orgasm
- (transitive, obsolete) To perform, carry out.
- To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last.
adjective
- Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
- Most recent, latest, last so far.
- Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
- Being the only one remaining of its class.
- Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
- Lowest in rank or degree.
adverb
- Most recently.
- (sequence) after everything else; finally
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Examples of "last" in Sentences
- Finally the last issue of the day was discussed.
- The last phase is no longer the end of the Neolithic.
- The dialogue at the end of the last episode was plain.
- The last and final stage of the RDM is the termination stage.
- Finally, the last element of a cleft is the cleft constituent.
- The combat boots represent the final march of the last battle.
- It is the last release with Renske doing death growls for the band.
- The last unit also features a final quiz for the end of the semester.
- The final scene in the tavern parodies the painting 'The Last Supper'.
- The estates were reunified on the death of the last of the Vernons in 1476.
- In dates of the last and present century, the expression of the _last two figures_ is sufficient.
- But then it is _all_ they can do -- it is the last card and the _last_ man, and if we make one stupendous effort, we must inevitably crush it.
- TWO major thoroughfares because the highway twists like vines as lanes spin up or down around each other - and the roads bend and warp until at last - at *last* - the road bears its own name on a sign.
- Your mind begins to spin, as the last of your brain's oxygen is used up, conjuring whatever images it can come up with your past, the future you're never going to see, your dreams, your nightmares until finally, at long last
- I found a feeling of sincere companionship ... a companionship that without ostentation and as a matter of course, shared the last cent the last meal ... when every cent _was_ the last cent, every meal the _last_ meal ... the rest depending on luck and
- And then, when the hour _has_ come at last, have you been able to take your departure without some half-reproachful feeling akin to melancholy -- without some slight shade of regret to think that much as you have hated it, you look upon it all now for the _last_ time?
- Seward pleaded for delay, fearing that on account of the depression of the public mind the proclamation might be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help, the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia in a last shriek on the retreat.
- Evelyn at a concert, for which I had tickets, but I was too tired to go; this morning we went to hear Dr.P. Brooks, the great preacher who everyone was raving about last spring in London, (or was it _last_ year?) his church is like a great _temple_, or public hall, and cost [pound symbol] 180,000.
- The love of it clung to him to the last moments of his life; but tho he felt that last infirmity of noble minds, never did there breathe a human being who had a more lofty disdain for the shallow and treacherous popularity which is to be courted by subserviency, and purchased at the expense of principle and duty.