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English to English adjective
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coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining |  | Example: the last time I saw Paris
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
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of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth. | | source: webster1913
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Being after all the others, similarly classed or considered, in time, place, or order of succession; following all the rest; final; hindmost; farthest; as, the last year of a century; the last man in a line of soldiers; the last page in a book; his last chance. | | source: webster1913
adjective satellite
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immediately past | | Example: last Thursday
the last chapter we read
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occurring at or forming an end or termination | | Example: his concluding words came as a surprise
the final chapter
the last days of the dinosaurs
terminal leave
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most unlikely or unsuitable | | Example: the last person we would have suspected
the last man they would have chosen for the job
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occurring at the time of death | | Example: his last words
the last rites
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conclusive in a process or progression | | Example: the final answer
a last resort
the net result
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highest in extent or degree | | Example: to the last measure of human endurance
whether they were accomplices in the last degree or a lesser one was...to be determined individually
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not to be altered or undone | | Example: the judge's decision is final
the arbiter will have the last say
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lowest in rank or importance | | Example: last prize
in last place
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adverb
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most_recently | | Example: I saw him last in London
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the item at the end | | Example: last, I'll discuss family values
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At a time or on an occasion which is the latest of all those spoken of or which have occurred; the last time; as, I saw him last in New York. | | source: webster1913
noun
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the temporal end; the concluding time | | Example: the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell
the market was up at the finish
they were playing better at the close of the season
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the last or lowest in an ordering or series | | Example: he was the last to leave
he finished an inglorious last
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a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do | | Example: he breathed his last
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the time at which life ends; continuing until dead | | Example: she stayed until his death
a struggle to the last
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a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds | | source: wordnet30
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a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels | | source: wordnet30
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the concluding parts of an event or occurrence | | Example: the end was exciting
I had to miss the last of the movie
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holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes | | source: wordnet30
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A wooden block shaped like the human foot, on which boots and shoes are formed. | | source: webster1913
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A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure, generally estimated at 4,000 lbs., but varying for different articles and in different countries. In England, a last of codfish, white herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs; of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers; of pitch and tar, fourteen barrels; of wool, twelve sacks; of flax or feathers, 1,700 lbs. | | source: webster1913
verb
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persist for a specified period of time | | Example: The bad weather lasted for three days
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continue to live through hardship or adversity | | Example: We went without water and food for 3 days
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?
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To continue in time; to endure; to remain in existence. | | source: webster1913
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To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last; as, to last a boot. | | source: webster1913
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