Last

Adjective

 * 1) Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
 * 2) Most recent, latest, last so far.
 * 3) Least preferable.
 * The last person I want to meet is Helen.
 * More rain is the last thing we need right now.

Synonyms

 * at the end, caboose, final, tail end, terminal
 * latest, most recent

Determiner

 * 1) The one immediately past
 * Last night the moon was full.
 * We went there last year.
 * Last time we talked about this was in January.
 * 1) Closest to seven days (one week) ago.
 * The party was last Tuesday; that is, not this yesterday, but eight days ago.

Adverb

 * 1) most recently
 * When we last met, he was based in Toronto.
 * 1)  after everything else; finally
 * I'll go last.
 * last but not least

Synonyms

 * finally
 * lastly

Verb

 * 1)  To perform, carry out.
 * 2)  To endure, continue over time.
 * Summer seems to last longer each year.
 * 1)  To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
 * I don't know how much longer we can last without reinforcements.

Synonyms

 * continue
 * endure
 * survive

Antonyms

 * disintegrate
 * dissipate
 * fall apart
 * wear out

Related terms

 * everlasting
 * lasting

Noun

 * 1) a tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes
 * 2) * 2006, Newman, Cathy, Every Shoe Tells a Story, National Geographic (September, 2006), 83,
 * 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.

Derived terms

 * cobbler, keep to your last

Noun

 * 1)  A measure of weight or quantity, varying in designation depending on the goods concerned.
 * 2) * 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 114:
 * Now we so quietly followed our businesse, that in three moneths wee made three or foure Last of Tarre, Pitch, and Sope ashes [...].
 * 1) * 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, page 169,
 * The last of wool is twelve sacks.
 * 1)  An old English (and Dutch) measure of the carrying capacity of a ship, equal to two tons.
 * 2) * 1942 (1601), T D Mutch, The First Discovery of Australia, page 14,
 * The tonnage of the Duyfken of Harmensz's fleet is given as 25 and 30 lasten.

Adverbs for Last
interminably; unendurably; unreasonably; briefly; unconsciously.

Thesaurus
Z, abide, advance, aforegoing, after, aftermost, apodosis, at last, at length, at long last, at the end, at the last, be spared, behind, bide, bottommost, boundary, carry on, carry through, cast, catastrophe, caudal, ceasing, cessation, cheat death, closing, coda, collateral, coming, completing, completive, completory, concluding, conclusion, conclusive, conclusively, consummation, consummative, contingent, continue, continue to be, continue to exist, crack of doom, crowning, culminating, culmination, curtain, curtains, death, decease, decisive, defeat time, definitive, defy time, denouement, departing, destination, destiny, determinative, die, doom, dwell, effect, elapse, end, end point, ending, endmost, endure, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, eventual, eventually, exist, expiration, expire, extend, extreme, farewell, farthest, farthest out, fate, final, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finalizing, finally, finis, finish, finishing, flit, flow, flow on, fly, foregoing, form, fulfilling, furthest, glide, go by, go on, goal, hang on, hindmost, hold, hold on, hold out, in conclusion, in fine, in the rear, indirect, intaglio, izzard, keep, keep alive, keep at, keep at it, keep driving, keep going, keep on, keep trying, keep up, lag, lapse, last breath, last gasp, last long, last out, last things, last trumpet, last words, lastly, latest, latter, latter end, leaving, limiting, live, live on, live through, maintain, matrix, mint, model, mold, most recent, mould, negative, newest, not accept compromise, omega, once for all, outermost, outward-bound, parting, pass, pass by, pattern, payoff, perdure, perennate, period, peroration, persevere, persist, polar, preceding, press on, prevail, proceed, punch, quietus, rearmost, remain, remotest, resolution, resting place, roll on, run, run its course, run on, run out, seal, secondary, shoe last, slide, slip, stamp, stand, stand up, stay, stay on, stoppage, stopping place, subsist, support life, survive, sustain, swan song, tail, tarry, template, term, terminal, terminating, termination, terminative, terminus, tide over, ultimate, ultimately, utmost, uttermost, valedictory, wear, wear well, windup

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/l{st/}}
 * ,, {{SAMPA|/l{st/}}

Etymology 1
latost:

Etymology 2
læstan:, from. Cognate with leisten:.

Etymology 3
læste:.

Etymology 4
hlæst:.

Adjective

 * Arabic: (’āxar)
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: lasta
 * Interlingua: ultime


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Latin:
 * Maltese: l-aħħar
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ultim, ultimă
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: deireannach, mu dheireadh
 * Slovak: posledný
 * Slovene: poslednji, zadnji, končni
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: చివరి (chivari), ఆఖరి (aakhari)
 * Turkish:


 * Armenian:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian: più recente
 * Latin:


 * Norwegian: ,
 * Romanian: ultim, ultimă
 * Russian:, прошлый, предыдущий
 * Scottish Gaelic: seo chaidh
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: పోయిన (pOyina), కిందటి (kindaTi)


 * Italian: ultimo, ultima
 * Russian: последний


 * Spanish: ,

Adverb

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: վերջում
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Croatian: posljednji, zadnji, konačni
 * Czech:
 * French: en dernier, finalement


 * German:
 * Italian: per ultimo
 * Japanese: 最後に (saigoni), 最終的に (saishūtekini), 終わりに (owarini)
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian: в последний раз
 * Slovak: naposledy
 * Slovene: poslednji, zadnji , končni
 * Swedish:


 * Czech:
 * German:
 * Italian: infine, alla fine


 * Slovak:
 * Swedish: slutligen, (Last but not least - sist men inte minst)

Verb

 * Armenian: տևել
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: durar
 * Italian: durare
 * Japanese: (tsuzuku)


 * Kurdish:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: trajati, obstati
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Armenian: դիմանալ
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * German: andauern,


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: resistere
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish: vara


 * : [lisrod]

Noun

 * Dutch: leest
 * Finnish:
 * Russian:


 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish: läst

Noun

 * Dutch: last

Anagrams

 * lats
 * salt
 * slat

Noun

 * 1) cargo
 * 2) cargo hold, hold (cargo area)
 * 3) weight, burden

Synonyms

 * ladning
 * lastrum

Noun

 * 1) vice

Etymology 1
From last:.

Etymology 2
From lǫstr:

Etymology 3
See laste: and laste:.

Noun

 * 1) expense
 * 2) load, burden
 * 3) hindrance, problem

Derived terms

 * belasten
 * belasting
 * last hebben
 * lastpost
 * vaste last

Etymology
From, from *hlaþ- (stem of , Dutch laden:) +.

Anagrams

 * stal

Noun

 * 1) footstep, track

Etymology
From, along with the feminine variant lǣst. Cognate with leest: ( leest:),  leist: ( Leiste:),  undefined: ( läst:,  läst:).

Noun

 * 1) property

Noun

 * 1) cargo
 * 2) load; a burden
 * 3) load; a certain amount that can be processed at one time
 * 4)  load; a force on a structure
 * 5)  load; any component that draws current or power
 * 6) habit which is difficult to get rid of, vice
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