1. a person''s dying act; the last thing a person can do; "he breathed his last"
2. holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes
3. the concluding parts of an event or occurrence; "the end was exciting"; "I had to miss the last of the movie"
4. a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels
5. a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds
6. the last or lowest in an ordering or series; "he was the last to leave"; "he finished an inglorious last"
7. the time at which life ends; continuing until dead; "she stayed until his death"; "a struggle to the last"
8. 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"
9. continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents"
10. persist or be long; in time; "The bad weather lasted for three days"
11. occurring at the time of death; "his last words"; "the last rites"
12. lowest in rank or importance; "last prize"; "in last place"
13. not to be altered or undone; "the judge''s decision is final"; "the arbiter will have the last say"
14. in accord with the most fashionable ideas or style; "wears only the latest style"; "the last thing in swimwear"; "knows the newest dances"; "cutting-edge technology"; "a with-it boutique"
15. 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"
16. 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
17. highest in extent or degree; "to the last measure of human endurance"; "whether they were accomplices in the last degree or a lesser one was...to be determined individually"
18. most unlikely or unsuitable; "the last person we would have suspected"; "the last man they would have chosen for the job"
19. conclusive in a process or progression; "the final answer"; "a last resort"; "the net result"
20. more recently than any other time; "I saw him last in London"
21. the item at the end; "last, I''ll discuss family values"

Similar Words: shoemaker's last, cobbler's last, end, final stage, death, stopping point, finale, finis, finish, conclusion, close, survive, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out, last-place, lowest, final, latest, newest, up-to-date, cutting-edge, with-it, concluding, terminal, utmost, net, most recently, lastly, in conclusion, finally

 

Hyponyms: endgame, end game, homestretch, passing, stand up, hold up, hold water, perennate, live out, run, run for, wear, hold out, endure, drag on, drag out

 

Grouped Verbs: be, live, exist, survive, subsist

 

Entailments: be, live

 

Derivational Morphology: end, terminate, stop, finish, cease, die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, conclude, close, fold, shut down, close down, complete, survival, endurance

 

Anagrams: slat, salt, SALT, lats

 

Language Translations:
Dutch: laatste		Finnish: viimeinen
French: dernier		Hebrew: אחרון
Hungarian: utolsó		Ido: lasta
Italian: ultimo		Japanese: 最後
Latin: ultimus		Maltese: l-aħħar
Persian: آخر		Polish: ostatni
Portuguese: último		Russian: последний
Slovak: posledný		Slovene: poslednji
Spanish: último		Swedish: sist