Definition of Last

Last

of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.

Being after all the others, similarly classed or considered, in time, place, or order of succession; following all the rest; final; hindmost; farthest; as, the last year of a century; the last man in a line of soldiers; the last page in a book; his last chance.

Next before the present; as, I saw him last week.

Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.

Lowest in rank or degree; as, the last prize.

Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely; having least fitness; as, he is the last person to be accused of theft.

At a time or on an occasion which is the latest of all those spoken of or which have occurred; the last time; as, I saw him last in New York.

In conclusion; finally.

At a time next preceding the present time.

To continue in time; to endure; to remain in existence.

To endure use, or continue in existence, without impairment or exhaustion; as, this cloth lasts better than that; the fuel will last through the winter.

A wooden block shaped like the human foot, on which boots and shoes are formed.

To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last; as, to last a boot.

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.

The burden of a ship; a cargo.

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I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
Muhammad Ali

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
Winston Churchill

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
Muhammad Ali

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
Winston Churchill

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde