Last meaning, definition and synonyms

1. Unclassified

of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.

2. Adjective

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.

3. Adjective

Next before the present; as, I saw him last week.

4. Adjective

Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.

5. Adjective

Lowest in rank or degree; as, the last prize.

6. Adjective

Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely; having least fitness; as, he is the last person to be accused of theft.

7. Adjective

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.

8. Adjective

In conclusion; finally.

9. Adjective

At a time next preceding the present time.

10. Verb

To continue in time; to endure; to remain in existence.

11. Verb

To endure use, or continue in existence, without impairment or exhaustion; as, this cloth lasts better than that; the fuel will last through the winter.

12. Verb

A wooden block shaped like the human foot, on which boots and shoes are formed.

13. Verb

To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last; as, to last a boot.

14. Noun

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, twent

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.

15. Noun

The burden of a ship; a cargo.

16. Adjective

most unlikely or unsuitable; "the last person we would have suspected"; "the last man they would have chosen for the job"

Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary

17. Noun

the last or lowest in an ordering or series; "he was the last to leave"; "he finished an inglorious last"

Vocabulary classified under Sociology