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say it: last
last is an adjective, noun, verb and adverb meaning "immediately past". It is pronounced /ˈlæst/ — last. It carries 21 recorded senses.
coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining
“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”
occurring at or forming an end or termination
“his concluding words came as a surprise”
“the final chapter”
“the last days of the dinosaurs”
“terminal leave”
most unlikely or unsuitable
“the last person we would have suspected”
“the last man they would have chosen for the job”
not to be altered or undone
“the judge's decision is final”
“the arbiter will have the last say”
the temporal end; the concluding time
“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”
the last or lowest in an ordering or series
“he was the last to leave”
“he finished an inglorious last”
a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds
the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
“the end was exciting”
“I had to miss the last of the movie”
holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes
continue to live and avoid dying
“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?”
“One crash victim died, the other lived”
most recently
“I saw him last in London”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for last come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.