last respects

1. 1.

   the act of expressing respect for someone who has died

   “he paid his last respects by standing quietly at the graveside”

   Broaderdeference

   plural

Questions about last respects

What does last respects mean?

last respects means "the act of expressing respect for someone who has died".

Is last respects a common word?

last respects is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.