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Last

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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... the place affords, and the majority of them accept the situation and take what we choose to give. Cold meat and bread are their usual fare, and there is always enough of that. Sometimes they make a row, and demand to be fed just in the same way that we feed our own farm hands. For instance, only last evening I was called into the men's dining-room to quell a disturbance caused by a sundowner. The travelers' table was supplied with cold meat, bread, and tea, while the table of our farm hands had on it bread and hot roast mutton. The sundowner had ...
— The Land of the Kangaroo - Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent • Thomas Wallace Knox
... enemies, will be working to bring Socialism about, the aims of those who have learned to believe in the certainty and beneficence of its advent will become clearer, their methods for realizing it clearer also, and at last ready to hand. Then will come that open acknowledgment for the necessity of the change (an acknowledgment coming from the intelligence of civilization) which is commonly called Revolution. It is no use prophesying as to the events ...
— Signs of Change • William Morris
... subject was resumed. Sir William Yonge rose, and said, that, though he differed from the honourable mover, he had much admired his speech of the last evening. Indeed the recollection of it made him only the more sensible of the weakness of his own powers; and yet, having what he supposed to be irrefragable arguments in his possession, he felt emboldened ...
— The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) • Thomas Clarkson
... intellectual or not, beautiful or not. It was not the flesh and blood he saw, but the image of beauty and loveliness which his own mind created. He idealized the girl; she was to him all that he fancied. But she never encouraged him; she denied his greetings, and even avoided his society. At last she died, when he was twenty-seven, and left him—to use his own expression—"to ruminate on death, and envy whomsoever dies." To console himself, he read Boethius, and religious philosophy was ever afterwards his favorite ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume VI • John Lord
... here this morning? I will tell you. I ask you no questions, I want to know nothing of your schemes and plans. You can run your neck into a noose if you like. You have been doing it all your life. And—who knows?—you may win at last. As for Martin, you have brought him up in the same school. And, bon Dieu! I suppose you are Bukatys, and you cannot help it. It is your affair, after all. But you shall not push Wanda into a Russian ...
— The Vultures • Henry Seton Merriman


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