last

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Being, coming, or placed after all others; final: the last game of the season.
2. adj. Being the only one left: his last nickel; as a last resort.
3. adj. Just past; most recent: last year; the last time I checked.
4. adj. Most up-to-date; newest: the last thing in swimwear.
5. adj. Highest in extent or degree; utmost: to the last measure of human endurance.
6. adj. Most valid, authoritative, or conclusive: The arbiter will have the last say in resolving this dispute.
7. adj. Least likely or expected: the last person we would have suspected.
8. adj. The least desirable or suitable: the last man for the job.
9. adj. Being the latest possible: waited until the last second before boarding the train.
10. adj. Lowest in rank or importance: last prize; last place.
11. adj. Used as an intensive: Every last dollar was donated to charity.
12. adj. Of or relating to a terminal period or stage, as of life: the last days of the dinosaurs.
13. adj. Administered just before death: the last sacraments.
14. adv. After all others in chronology or sequence: arrived last.
15. adv. Most recently: a fashion last popular in the 1940s.
16. adv. At the end; finally: Add the butter last.
17. n. One that is at the end or last: the last to be chosen; on every page but the last.
18. n. The end: held out until the last.
19. n. The final mention or appearance: haven't seen the last of our troubles.
20. idiom. at last After a considerable length of time; finally.
21. idiom. at long last After a lengthy or troublesome wait or delay: At long last the winter was over.
22. v. To continue in time; go on: The war lasted four years.
23. v. To continue; survive: The patient is not expected to last much longer.
24. v. To remain in good or usable condition: Produce lasts longer if it is refrigerated. I wanted a car that would last.
25. v. To continue in force or practice: wondered if the marriage would last.
26. v. To remain in adequate supply: Will our water last?
27. v. To keep adequately supplied: left enough bread to last the family for the weekend.
28. v. To persist or endure for the entire length of; survive: hoped to last the season without injuring her leg again.
29. n. A block or form shaped like a human foot and used in making or repairing shoes.
30. v. To mold or shape on a last.
31. n. Chiefly British A unit of volume or weight varying for different commodities and in different districts, equal to about 80 bushels, 640 gallons, or 2 tons.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A wooden pattern or model of the human foot, on which shoes are formed.
2. To form on or by a last; fit to a last, as the materials for a boot or shoe.
3. To follow out; carry out; perform; do.
4. To extend; reach.
5. To continue to be; remain in existence; continue in progress.
6. To hold out; continue unexhausted or unconsumed; escape failure or loss.
7. To continue unimpaired; remain fresh, unfaded, or unspoiled; continue to be available or serviceable; wear well: as, this color will last.
8. n. Power of holding out; endurance; stamina.
9. n. A burden; a load; a cargo.
10. n. A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value; hence, a particular weight or measure, varying in amount in different localities and for different commodities. As an absolute measure, a last is generally reckoned at 4,000 pounds; but the word is now rarely met with, and only in local or technical use. A last of flax or feathers is 1,700 pounds; of wool, 12 sacks; of corn, 10 quarters or 80 bushels; of meal or ashes, 12 barrels; of gunpowder, 24 barrels; of codfish or white herrings, 12 barrels; of red herrings, 20 cades (of 500 or 720 fishes each); of pitch or tar, 14 barrels. A last of leather is given as 20 dickers of 10 hides each; but a last of hides is 12 dozen.
11. n. Fault.
12. To find fault with; blame.
13. That comes or remains after all the others; latest; hindmost; closing; final; ultimate.
14. Next before the present: as, last week; on the last occasion.
15. Utmost; extreme.
16. Lowest; meanest.
17. Furthest of all from inclusion or consideration; most improbable or unlikely.
18. n. The end; conclusion; termination: in phrases.
19. At the end of the series; after all others.
20. In conclusion; finally; lastly.
21. For the last time; on the last occasion before the present time.
22. Lately.
23. n. In law, same as last-court.
24. n. A piece cut from a fish and used as bait. In pollack-fishing, for example, such a piece is cut from the under or bright part of the pollack.

Wiktionary

1. n. a tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes
2. n. obsolete A measure of weight or quantity, varying in designation depending on the goods concerned.
3. n. obsolete An old English (and Dutch) measure of the carrying capacity of a ship, equal to two tons.
4. adj. Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
5. adj. Most recent, latest, last so far.
6. adj. Least preferable.
7. The (one) immediately before the present.
8. Closest to seven days (one week) ago.
9. adv. most recently
10. adv. sequence after everything else; finally.
11. v. transitive, obsolete To perform, carry out.
12. v. intransitive To endure, continue over time.
13. v. intransitive To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. obsolete of last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.
2. adj. Being after all the others, similarly classed or considered, in time, place, or order of succession; following all the rest; final; hindmost; farthest.
3. adj. Next before the present.
4. adj. Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
5. adj. Lowest in rank or degree.
6. adj. Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely; having least fitness.
7. adv. At a time or on an occasion which is the latest of all those spoken of or which have occurred; the last time.
8. adv. In conclusion; finally; lastly.
9. adv. At a time next preceding the present time.
10. v. To continue in time; to endure; to remain in existence.
11. v. To endure use, or continue in existence, without impairment or exhaustion
12. n. A wooden block shaped like the human foot, on which boots and shoes are formed.
13. v. To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last.
14. n. 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. n. The burden of a ship; a cargo.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes
2. n. a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds
3. adv. most_recently.
4. adj. most unlikely or unsuitable
5. adj. occurring at or forming an end or termination
6. n. a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do
7. adv. the item at the end
8. n. the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
9. adj. lowest in rank or importance
10. n. a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels
11. n. the temporal end; the concluding time
12. adj. occurring at the time of death
13. adj. conclusive in a process or progression
14. adj. highest in extent or degree
15. v. persist for a specified period of time
16. n. the last or lowest in an ordering or series
17. adj. coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining
18. adj. immediately past
19. n. the concluding parts of an event or occurrence
20. v. continue to live through hardship or adversity
21. adj. not to be altered or undone