last

Meanings

Adjective

• Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
• Most recent, latest, last so far.
• Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
• Being the only one remaining of its class.
• Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
• Lowest in rank or degree.

Adverb

• Most recently.
• after everything else; finally

Verb

• To perform, carry out.
• To endure, continue over time.
• To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
• To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last.

Noun

• A tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes.
• A burden; load; a cargo; freight.
• A measure of weight or quantity, varying in designation depending on the goods concerned.
• An old English (and Dutch) measure of the carrying capacity of a ship, equal to two tons.
• A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.

Related

Similar words

• at the end, caboose, dernier , final, tail end, terminal, ultimate, lattermost
• latest, [[most recent]]
• continue
• endure
• survive

Opposite words

• disintegrate
• dissipate
• fall apart
• wear out

Origin

• From Middle English laste, latst, syncopated variant of latest.
• From Middle English lasten, from Old English lǣstan, from Proto-Germanic *laistijaną. Cognate with German leisten ("yield").
• From Old English læste, Proto-Germanic *laistiz. Compare Swedish läst, German Leisten.
• From Middle English last, from Old English hlæst ("burden, load, freight"), from Proto-Germanic *hlastuz ("burden, load, freight"), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- ("to put, lay out"). Cognate with West Frisian lêst, Dutch last, German Last, Swedish last, Icelandic lest.