Last

/lɑːst/ · adjective

Meaning

Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind..

Definitions by Sense

1. Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
2. Most recent, latest, last so far.
3. Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
4. Being the only one remaining of its class.
5. Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
6. Lowest in rank or degree.
7. The (one) immediately before the present.
8. (of days of the week or months of the year) 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.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

He is the last person to be accused of theft.

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• lasts
• lasting
• lasted
• lasten

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