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▸ noun: a person's dying act; the last thing a person can do ("He breathed his last")
▸ noun: holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes
▸ noun: a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels
▸ noun: a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds
▸ noun: the last or lowest in an ordering or series ("He was the last to leave")
▸ noun: the concluding parts of an event or occurrence ("I had to miss the last of the movie")
▸ noun: the time at which life ends; continuing until dead ("A struggle to the last")
▸ noun: the temporal end; the concluding time
▸ verb: persist or be long; in time ("The bad weather lasted for three days")
▸ verb: continue to live; endure or last
▸ adjective: highest in extent or degree ("To the last measure of human endurance")
▸ adjective: most unlikely or unsuitable ("The last person we would have suspected")
▸ adjective: occurring at the time of death ("His last words")
▸ adjective: lowest in rank or importance ("Last prize")
▸ adjective: coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining ("The last time I saw Paris")
▸ adjective: conclusive in a process or progression ("A last resort")
▸ adjective: not to be altered or undone ("The arbiter will have the last say")
▸ adjective: in accord with the most fashionable ideas or style ("The last thing in swimwear")
▸ adjective: occurring at or forming an end or termination ("The last days of the dinosaurs")
▸ adverb: more recently than any other time ("I saw him last in London")
▸ adverb: the item at the end ("Last, I'll discuss family values")
▸ name: A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #33428)
▸ Word origin
▸ noun: a person's dying act; the last thing a person can do ("He breathed his last")
▸ noun: holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes
▸ noun: a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels
▸ noun: a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds
▸ noun: the last or lowest in an ordering or series ("He was the last to leave")
▸ noun: the concluding parts of an event or occurrence ("I had to miss the last of the movie")
▸ noun: the time at which life ends; continuing until dead ("A struggle to the last")
▸ noun: the temporal end; the concluding time
▸ verb: persist or be long; in time ("The bad weather lasted for three days")
▸ verb: continue to live; endure or last
▸ adjective: highest in extent or degree ("To the last measure of human endurance")
▸ adjective: most unlikely or unsuitable ("The last person we would have suspected")
▸ adjective: occurring at the time of death ("His last words")
▸ adjective: lowest in rank or importance ("Last prize")
▸ adjective: coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining ("The last time I saw Paris")
▸ adjective: conclusive in a process or progression ("A last resort")
▸ adjective: not to be altered or undone ("The arbiter will have the last say")
▸ adjective: in accord with the most fashionable ideas or style ("The last thing in swimwear")
▸ adjective: occurring at or forming an end or termination ("The last days of the dinosaurs")
▸ adverb: more recently than any other time ("I saw him last in London")
▸ adverb: the item at the end ("Last, I'll discuss family values")
▸ name: A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #33428)
▸ Word origin