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Definition: Last |
LastAdjective1. Immediately past; "last Thursday"; "the last chapter we read". 2. 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". 3. 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". 4. More advanced in time or nearer to the end in a sequence; "these latter days"; "the latter (or last) part of the book"; "latter (or later) part of the 18th century". 5. Conclusive in a process or progression; "the final answer"; "a last resort"; "the net result". 6. Most unlikely or unsuitable; "the last person we would have suspected"; "the last man they would have chosen for the job". 7. Occurring at the time of death; "his last words"; "the last rites". 8. Not to be altered or undone; "the judge's decision is final"; "the arbiter will have the last say". 9. Lowest in rank or importance; "last prize"; "in last place". 10. : 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". 11. : in accord with the most fashionable ideas or style; "wears only the latest style"; "the last thing in swimwear"; "knows the newest dances"; "up-to-date technology". Adverb1. More recently than any other time; "I saw him last in London". 2. The item at the end; "last, I'll discuss family values". Noun1. 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". 2. The last or lowest in an ordering or series; "he was the last to leave"; "he finished an inglorious last". 3. A person's dying act; the last thing a person can do; "he breathed his last". 4. The end of life; continuing until dead; "he bled to death"; "a struggle to the last". 5. A unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds. 6. (British) a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels. 7. The concluding parts of an event or occurrence: "the end was exciting"; "I had to miss the last of the movie". 8. Holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes. Verb1. Be long; in time. 2. Continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "The legend of Elvis lives on"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents". 3. Persist or continue; "The rains lasted four days". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "last" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns. Ah, punster, would my lot were cast, Where the cobbler is unknown, So that I might forget his last And hear your own. Gargo Repsky. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Literature | Last (Anglo-Saxon lást, a footstep, a shoemaker's last.) The cobbler should stick to his last ("Ne sutor ultra cre&pacute;idam"). Apelles having executed a famous painting, exposed it to public view, when a cobbler found fault because the painter had made too few latchets to the goloshes. Apelles amended the fault, and set out his picture again. Next day the cobbler complained of the legs, when Apelles retorted, "Keep to the shop, friend, but do not attempt to criticise what you do not understand." (See Wigs .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Last, Latest. "Did you receive my last letter?" "I hope not. I enjoy your letters very much, and I trust you may live to write many more." Source: Slips of Speech. |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
LAST | English | Long Archival Store Technology | Information |
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Synonyms: LastSynonyms: concluding (adj), final (adj), last(a) (adj), last-place (adj), later(a) (adj), latest (adj), latter(a) (adj), lowest (adj), net (adj), newest (adj), terminal (adj), up-to-date (adj), utmost (adj), finally (adv), in conclusion (adv), lastly (adv), most recently (adv), close (n), cobbler's last (n), conclusion (n), death (n), end (n), final stage (n), finale (n), finis (n), finish (n), shoemaker's last (n), stopping point (n), endure (v), go (v), hold out (v), hold up (v), live (v), live on (v), survive (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: first (adj), intermediate (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
End | Noun: end, close, termination; desinence, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega; extreme, extremity; gable end, butt end, fag-end; tip, nib, point; tail; (rear); verge; (edge); tag, peroration; bonne bouche; bottom dollar, tail end, rear guard. |
Adjective: ending; Verb: final, terminal, definitive; crowning; (completing); last, ultimate; hindermost; rear; caudal; vergent. | |
Existence | Abide, continue, endure, last, remain, stay. |
Permanence | Verb: let alone, let be, let it be; persist, remain, stay, tarry, rest; stet; hold, hold on; last, endure, bide, abide, aby, dwell, maintain, keep; stand, stand still, stand fast; subsist, live, outlive, survive; hold one's ground, keep one's ground, hold one's footing, keep one's footing; hold good. |
Prototype | Text, copy, design; fugleman, keynote. die, mold; matrix, last, plasm; proplasm, protoplasm; mint; seal, punch, intaglio, negative; stamp. |
The Past | Foregoing; last, latter; recent, over night; preterperfect, preterpluperfect. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | We meet at last. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) What has died is the last breath in me that was human (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) Crime's my baaag. I got this caper worked out ta the last detail (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer) Talking pictures, that means I'm out of a job. At last I can start suffering and write that symphony (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green) I spent the last of my life savings turning my van into a dog. It cost me 200 bucks for the alarm system alone (Dumb and Dumber; writing credit: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, and Bennett Yellin.) | |
Lyrics | Last night, there was no planning it (Last Night; performing artist: Az Yet) Don't, don't let me be the last to know (Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know; performing artist: Britney Spears) But I'm down to one last breath (One Last Breath; performing artist: Creed) The last waltz should last forever (The Last Waltz; performing artist: ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK) Make it last (Make It Last Forever; performing artist: Keith Sweat) | |
Clever | The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. (references; author: Mark Twain) He who laughs last, thinks slowest. (references; author: unknown) Five second fuses only last three seconds. (references; author: unknown) Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. (references; author: unknown) Kentucky: Five Million People; Fifteen Last Names (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Last Summer (2000) The Last Supper (2000) F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' (1974) Last of the Wild (1974) | |
Song Titles | Last Thing On My Mind, The (performing artist: Neil Diamond) Save The Last Dance For Me (performing artist: The Drifters) LAST DATE (performing artist: Floyd Cramer ) Last Kiss (performing artist: J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers) Last Beautiful Girl (performing artist: Matchbox 20) | |
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Six-step sequence of the death of a cancer cell. A cancer cell has migrated through the holes of a matrix coated membrane from the top to the bottom, simulating natural migration of a invading cancer cell between, and sometimes through, the vascular endothelium. Notice the spikes or pseudopodia that are characteristic of an invading cancer cell (1). A buffy coat containing red blood cells, lymphocytes and macrophages is added to the bottom of the membrane. A group of macrophages identify the cancer cell as foreign matter and start to stick to the cancer cell, which still has its spikes (2). Macrophages begin to fuse with, and inject its toxins into, the cancer cell. The cell starts rounding up and loses its spikes (3). As the macrophage cell becomes smooth (4). The cancer cell appears lumpy in the last stage before it dies. These lumps are actually the macrophages fused within the cancer cell (5). The cancer cell then loses its morphology, shrinks up and dies (6). Photo magnification: 1: x12,000; 2: x4,000; 3: x8,000; 4: x26,000; 5: x56,000; 6: x14,000. Credit: Susan Arnold (photographer). | In the last century, infections by Streptococcus pyogenes, (S. hemolyticus), claimed many lives, especially since the organism was the most important cause of puerperal fever and scarlet fever. Streptococci. Credit: CDC. | ||
A pus specimen, viewed using Pappenheim's stain. Last century, infections by S. pyogenes claimed many lives especially since the organism was the most important cause of puerperal fever and scarlet fever. Streptococci. Credit: CDC. | ![]() | Annual Depletion Of Antarctic Ozone Results Are In: 'Ozone Hole' Smaller Than Last Year. Credit: NASA. | |
![]() | New Animation Depicts Changs in Antarctic Ice Sheet For the first time, scientists at NASA have generated a computer model depicting changes in the Antarctic ice sheet since the peak of the last ice age - nearly 20,000 years ago. The West Antarctic ice. Credit: NASA. | For the first time since Pluto's discovery 66 years ago, astronomers have at last directly ... Credit: NASA. | |
Astronomers analyzing debris from a comet that broke apart last summer spied pieces as small ... Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Hubble Space Telescope (HST) being refurbished during the STS 61 flight.Astronauts Story Musgrave and Jeffrey Hoffman are seen during the last of the five EVAs. Australia's west coast can be seen in the background. Credit: NASA. | |
![]() | Extensive wetlands lie near the town of Yellowknife, near the Great Slave Lake in Northwest Territories, Canada. The shallow lakes seen in this image have formed in grooves in the landscape that were carved by glaciers during the last Ice Age. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Yolo Buggy with George Davidson Base Line party of George Davidson The last time such buggies were used was in 1962. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| "Concordes last flight" by Curtis Miller Commentary: "Concorde flys over London for the last time." | "Last Ball Plasma" by Oliver L. Kuy Commentary: "Digital Painting by Oliver Kuy." |
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| Sliding chord played as the last note by a symphonic orchestra. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | It's the last inch that counts. |
Christian Nevell Bovee | Our first and last love is... self-love. |
Emily Dickinson's Last Words | . . . the fog is rising. |
John Ruskin | The last act crowns the play. |
John Vanbrugh | He laughs best who laughs last. |
Oscar Wilde | The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last. |
Quentin Crisp | Sex is the last refuge of the miserable. |
Samuel Johnson. | Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. |
Virgil | This last labor grant me, O Arethusa. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And if he also bartered away plums, that would have rotted in a week, for nuts that would last good for his eating a whole year, he did no injury; he wasted not the common stock; destroyed no part of the portion of goods that belonged to others, so long as nothing perished uselesly in his hands. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | At the last term on the affidavits then read and filed with the clerk, a rule was granted in this case, requiring the Secretary of State [note: i.e., James Madison] to show cause why a mandamus should not issue, directing him to deliver to William Marbury his commission as a justice of the peace for the county of Washington, in the district of Columbia. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | This is the last word and the only seriously meant word of bourgeois Socialism. (reference) |
Abraham Lincoln | 1863 | It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. (The Gettysburg Address) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The provisions of paragraphs 17 and 18 and the last part of paragraph 16 shall apply to contracts for the re-insurance of marine risks. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Last time I saw it all coming and cried aloud to my own fellow-countrymen and to the world, but no one paid any attention. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support--to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective--to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak--and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run. (reference) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1959) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | In that very room she had been measured last September, with her two friends |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | However, it was over at last, and they sat down again in a ring, and begged the Mouse to tell them something more |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark for ever |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Bellingham, for the last few moments, had kept an anxious eye upon him. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The last sign |
Cymon and Iphigenia | John Dryden | She hugg'd the offender, and forgave the offence: Sex to the last. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Rude brutal anger routed the last lingering instant of ecstasy from his soul |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | I hope he is much grown since last I saw him. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He said the last smugly |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I saw the former in his last great triumph |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | WISE EARS! Will Last a Lifetime. (references) | |
Sealants can last up to 10 years. (references) | ||
Vertigo may last for days or weeks. (references) | ||
Business | Sales of SUVs have grown steadily over the last years. (references) | |
This was the worst financial result in the last ten years. (references) | ||
Listening time has decreased somewhat during the last ten years. (references) | ||
Children | Swaziland | Most students reach grade 7, which is the last year in primary school. (references) |
Jordan | Declining economic conditions have caused the number of these children to increase steadily over the last 10 years. (references) | |
Brazil | The country has made significant advances in the last few years in expanding the availability of special instruction for children with disabilities. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Albania | In May the UNHCR closed the last refugee camp for Kosovars. (references) |
Colombia | A total of 61 pastors have been killed in the last 8 years. (references) | |
Brunei | The detainees subsequently were released, the last three in October. (references) | |
Economic History | Slovak Rep | This program yielded its first fruits last year. (references) |
Taiwan | Constitution: December 25, 1947; last amended 1997. (references) | |
Ecuador | Poverty has more than doubled in the last five years. (references) | |
Human Rights | Sao Tome and Principe | The Supreme Court is the appellate court of last resort. (references) |
Brunei | All were released during the year, the last three in October. (references) | |
Belarus | It was the third such "burglary" of the Committee's office in the last 4 years. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Venezuela | In 1998, the last year for which estimates are available, they returned at least 15 groups averaging 100 Warao each. (references) |
Russia | Responsibility for government policy toward indigenous people has been transferred between government agencies several times in the last few years. (references) | |
Paraguay | In June the Government executed a court order and dislodged farm workers who took over the lands of the Mbya indigenous group in 1994. The Mbya had camped in front of the Congress for the last 2 years both in protest and for lack of a place to live. (references) | |
Minorities | China | By some estimates, 250,000 Han have moved into the region annually in the last few years. (references) |
Colombia | Choco remains the department with the lowest per capita level of social investment and is last in terms of education, health, and infrastructure. (references) | |
Mauritius | The MPI last met in August 2000. In addition a group of citizens based in the northern part of the country formed an NGO in March 1999 geared toward promoting ethnic unity. (references) | |
Political Economy | TURKEY | Nonbinding mediation is the last of those steps. (references) |
Lebanon | Presidential elections were last held in November 1998. (references) | |
Nicaragua | Progress on the last, in particular, has been very slow. (references) | |
Political Rights | Papua New Guinea | The last general election was held in June 1997. Of the 109 seats in Parliament, 55 seats changed hands. (references) |
Indonesia | Women represent less than 9 percent of DPR members, a decrease from 13 percent during Soeharto's last term. (references) | |
Australia | Approximately 25 percent of federal parliamentarians are women, approximately the same as at the end of the last Parliament. (references) | |
Trade | Peru | Very few items have been prohibited from importation in the last years. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabia's commercial banks have enjoyed steady profits for the last five years. (references) | |
Portugal | If this method cannot be applied the others may be successively used, the sixth being a last resort. (references) | |
Travel | El Salvador | These are followed by the person's last name. (references) |
Korea | The most common last names are Kim, Lee, and Park. (references) | |
Colombia | On the last workday of the month, banks close at noon. (references) | |
Women | Cuba | Prostitution has increased greatly in the last few years. (references) |
Fiji | Only one case in the last 5 years has been sent to the High Court. (references) | |
Iran | The Siqeh marriage may last for a night or as little as 30 minutes. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Croatia | Detention may last several days or several weeks. (references) |
Vietnam | Most strikes are symbolic and last only 1 or 2 days. (references) | |
Burkina Faso | The percentage of employed children did not diminish during the last decade. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. Plato held that those souls which in a previous state of existence (antedating Athens) had obtained the clearest glimpses of eternal truth entered into the bodies of persons who became philosophers. Plato himself was a philosopher. The souls that had least contemplated divine truth animated the bodies of usurpers and despots. Dionysius I, who had threatened to decapitate the broad- browed philosopher, was a usurper and a despot. Plato, doubtless, was not the first to construct a system of philosophy that could be quoted against his enemies; certainly he was not the last. "Concerning the nature of the soul," saith the renowned author of Diversiones Sanctorum, "there hath been hardly more argument than that of its place in the body. Mine own belief is that the soul hath her seat in the abdomen -- in which faith we may discern and interpret a truth hitherto unintelligible, namely that the glutton is of all men most devout. He is said in the Scripture to 'make a god of his belly' -- why, then, should he not be pious, having ever his Deity with him to freshen his faith? Who so well as he can know the might and majesty that he shrines? Truly and soberly, the soul and the stomach are one Divine Entity; and such was the belief of Promasius, who nevertheless erred in denying it immortality. He had observed that its visible and material substance failed and decayed with the rest of the body after death, but of its immaterial essence he knew nothing. This is what we call the Appetite, and it survives the wreck and reek of mortality, to be rewarded or punished in another world, according to what it hath demanded in the flesh. The Appetite whose coarse clamoring was for the unwholesome viands of the general market and the public refectory shall be cast into eternal famine, whilst that which firmly through civilly insisted on ortolans, caviare, terrapin, anchovies, pates de foie gras and all such Christian comestibles shall flesh its spiritual tooth in the souls of them forever and ever, and wreak its divine thirst upon the immortal parts of the rarest and richest wines ever quaffed here below. Such is my religious faith, though I grieve to confess that neither His Holiness the Pope nor His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury (whom I equally and profoundly revere) will assent to its dissemination." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bob Costas | Seattle is strong. Oakland has the pitching. If they get into the playoffs, they've always got a shot. The last two years they barely missed derailing the Yankees. |
Connie Francis | We became very close in the last few years of his life. I took him from doctor to doctor to hospital to hospital for operations and I did everything I possibly could to help him. |
Dennis Miller | We're discovering that not only do good times not last forever, but sometimes they never even existed in the first place. |
Dick Cheney | If nothing had happened. If there had not been the totally irresponsible charges last week, that wouldn't have affected any of this anyway. |
Jack Lemmon | I am on the last great journey here, one we all got to take. Maybe I can teach people what to pack for the trip. |
Mark Shields | Senator Kennedy's speech was almost blacked out, as was President Bush's signing of the education bill last week, by Enron, as Bob talked about. |
Nancy Grace | Well it depends. I would not go for some prurient interest, to observe a human in their last moments. In suffering in what I consider a private moment between them and their maker. |
Rush Limbaugh | Put profits last and feel-good populism first. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | The acts of the last session which required special arrangements have been as far as circumstances would admit carried into operation. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Another important acquisition of territory has also been made since the last session of Congress. |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | At last a vision has been vouchsafed us of our life as a whole. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Accordingly, I repeat the proposal of last year's Budget Message that the Federal Government provide financial aid to assist the States in assuring more nearly equal opportunities for a good education. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | We have learned at last to manage a modern economy to assure its continued growth. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | All we know is that whatever they cost last year, they will cost more next year. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Well, at last there is agreement that we can't spend ourselves rich. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Last fall at the education summit, the governors and I agreed to look for ways to help make sure that our kids are ready to learn the very first day they walk into the classroom. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Now, last month, in our action over Iraq, our troops were superb. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Through much of the last century, America's faith in freedom and democracy was a rock in a raging sea. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Last" is generally used as an ordinal number -- approximately 94.36% of the time. "Last" is used about 72,056 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Ordinal Number | 94.36% | 67,991 | 128 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.58% | 2,582 | 3,535 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.61% | 1,160 | 6,630 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.35% | 251 | 18,755 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.08% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Total | 100.00% | 72,056 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "last" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Last | Last name | 200 | 33,428 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "last". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Aharhel | N/A | Biblical | The last sorrow |
| Omega | N/A | Biblical | The last letter of the Greek alphabet |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "last": accented on the last syllable ♦ age last birthday ♦ as a last resort ♦ as a last resource ♦ as recently as last week ♦ at last ♦ at long last ♦ at one's last gasp ♦ at the last ♦ At the last gasp ♦ at the last minute ♦ at the last moment ♦ at the last pass ♦ balance carried over from last year ♦ be at one's last gasp ♦ be brought to one's last shift ♦ be driven to one's last shift ♦ be near one's last ♦ be on one's last legs ♦ before last ♦ breathe one's last ♦ breathe one's last breath ♦ cobbler's last ♦ come last ♦ Custer's Last Stand ♦ Darning last ♦ die in the last ditch ♦ down to the last detail ♦ down to the last drop ♦ down to the very last ♦ draw one's last breath ♦ draw the last breath ♦ every last ♦ first and last ♦ First or last ♦ for the last time ♦ from first to last ♦ game to the last ♦ have the last say ♦ have the last word ♦ he who laughs last laughs best ♦ i saw him last ♦ in our last issue ♦ in the last analysis ♦ in the last resort ♦ insist on having the last word ♦ it's an age since we last met ♦ last a long time ♦ last act ♦ last autumn ♦ last born ♦ last breath ♦ last but not least ♦ last but one ♦ last but two ♦ last call optimisation ♦ Last Chance ♦ last comer ♦ last dance ♦ last date for entries ♦ last day ♦ last day for payment ♦ last day of school ♦ last day of the month ♦ last day of the sales ♦ last ditch ♦ last drink ♦ last evening ♦ last friday ♦ last Frontier ♦ last generation ♦ last half ♦ Last heir ♦ last hope ♦ last hurrah ♦ last in first out ♦ last Judgement ♦ last judgment ♦ last looking ♦ last mentioned ♦ last minute ♦ last minute offer ♦ last minute spending ♦ last monday ♦ last month ♦ last name ♦ last night ♦ last not least ♦ last number redial ♦ last of a shoe ♦ last of all ♦ last or finishing ♦ last out ♦ last part ♦ last post ♦ last quarter ♦ last resort ♦ last respects ♦ last rite ♦ last rites ♦ last saturday. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "last": last-act, last-among-equals, last-ball, last-born, last-breath-of-a-dying, last-but-one, last-century, last-chance, last-checked-issue, last-comers, last-day, last-day-of-peace, last-ditch, last-ditch stand, last-eight, last-end, last-ever, last-flight, last-four, last-gasp, last-gate, last-grasp, last-heard, last-heat, last-hole, last-in, last-in first-out, last-in-first-out, last-kick, last-known, last-lap, last-leg, last-lick, last-like, last-making, last-match, last-mentioned, last-minute, last-moment, last-move, last-named, last-named', last-night, last-night-of-the-prommers, last-of-the-summer-wine, last-period, last-place, last-quarter, last-race, last-received, last-reel, last-resort, last-round, last-second, last-six-colours, last-swimming, last-time, last-time-leave, last-to-be-colonized, last-to-first, last-wicket, last-year. | |
Ending with "last": second-last. | |
Containing "last": one-last-pushers, tony-coton-at-man-city-last-august, when-did-you-last-see-your-father. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
last minute | 2,627 | last name origin | 515 |
last minute travel | 2,544 | last of the mohicans | 438 |
last minute vacation | 1,736 | last minute cruise deal | 428 |
last supper | 1,627 | last will | 408 |
last name | 1,231 | last minute club | 385 |
last minute cruise | 1,204 | the last resort | 383 |
comic last standing | 1,119 | last minute vacation deal | 308 |
last will and testament | 1,052 | last | 303 |
the last unicorn | 1,022 | i know what you did last summer | 281 |
last minute flight | 996 | one last time | 280 |
last name meaning | 927 | at last | 277 |
save last dance | 801 | dick last resort | 272 |
last minute travel deal | 769 | save the last dance soundtrack | 269 |
last samurai | 761 | last minute ticket | 257 |
last minute airfare | 730 | last minute airline ticket | 245 |
last supper da vinci | 712 | last kiss | 235 |
the last song | 652 | day last school | 228 |
last minute deal | 632 | the last supper painting | 224 |
last day | 625 | barbie last name | 221 |
last minute holiday | 580 | custers last stand | 221 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "last"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | voormalige (ex-, former, previous, prior), verlede (past), afgelope, vroeëre (ex-, former, previous, prior), laatste, agterste (backside, hind, hindmost, rump). (various references) | |
Albanian | kallëp (bar, block, cake, form, frame, ingot, Mold, mould, pattern, shape, stamp), fut këpucët në kallëp, i fundit (closing, current, dernier, ending, final, hindmost, latter, parting, rearmost, recent, terminal, ultimate, utmost), i kaluar (advanced, back, current, departed, mounted, overpast, past), i parafundit (last but one, penultimate), i shkuar (departed, past), fus këpucët në kallëp, i tepërt (excess, excessive, excrescent, odd, over, overabundant, redundant, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, unnecessary, walloping, waste), zgjat (delay, elongate, extend, hold out, lengthen, let down, linger, postpone, prolong, protract, reach, reach out, spread, stretch, telescope), mban (bite, hold, hold out), mjafton (do), në fund (crown it all, in the end), përfundim (afterpiece, closing, closure, completion, conclusion, consequence, consummation, denouement, derivation, development, eduction, effect, end product, event, expiration, finality, finding, finish, fulfillment, fulfilment, harvest, issue, job, lapse, offshoot, offspring, outcome, output, perfecting, performance, result, resume, rider, total, train, upshot, windup), së fundi (lastly, newly, recently, ultimately), vazhdon (hold, hold out, persist, progress, wear on), i tepërm (excess, excessive, excrescent, odd, overabundant, redundant, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, walloping, waste). (various references) | |
Arabic | اخير (latest), ماض (ago, back, bygone, cutting, departed, past, previous), تحمل (afford, bear, bear up, bearing, decamp, defray, endure, firmness, have smb. over, hold out, incur, lump it, mizzle, pocket, put up with, see, stand, stick, stick it out, stomach, suffer, support, sustain, tighten, tolerate, undergo), سابق (antecedent, anterior, back, elder, ex-, fore, foregoing, former, harbinger, once, past, preamble, preceding, preliminary, previous, prior, quondam, race), الأخير (hindmost, lag, late, later, rear, rearmost), إستمر (continue, drive up, endure, get back, get going, get on, go ahead, go in, go on, hold, hold on, keep, keep going, keep on, persist, run on smth., sew on, subsist, take, wear out), أنهى (call a halt, close, complete, compose, conclude, cut, determine, dissolve, do, end, finish, fulfil, fulfill, last out, round off, terminate, top, wind up, wrap up), أخير (extreme, final, latest, latter, terminal, ultimate), آخر (another, decline, different, else, latest, other, utmost), ثبت (affirm, anchor, assure, aver, belay, belt, bend, bite, bolt, bolt on, brace, cable, catch, chock, confirm, corroborate, countersign, demonstrate, display, endure, establish, evince, fastening, fix, lash, pin down, plant, prove, reinforce, secure, set, spike, stabilize, stay, steady, stick, strengthen, substantiate, testify, validate, verify, warrant), دام (bleeding, bloody, continue, eddy, gyrate, perpetuate, swirl, wash). (various references) | |
Aymara | masayp'u (last night). (various references) | |
Basque | azken (behind), atzean (behind). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | най-нов (latest, up-to-the-minute), издържам (endure, fend for, hold, hold on, hold out, keep, maintain, pass, receive, stand, subsist, support, sustain, take, wear out, withstand), изтрайвам (bear, endure, stick out), последен (dernier, end, final, lag, last ditch, latest, latter, lattermost, new, outside, parting, recent, red-hot, terminal, the last, ultimate, uttermost), последно, последно действие, продължавам (carry on, continue, extend, go ahead, go on, keep, keep on, lengthen, proceed, produce, prolong, prosecute, protract, push on, reach, resume, spread, stretch), за последен път, задържам се (persist, regain one's feet, stay on), запазвам се (keep, persist, stand, stick, stick on, survive), маловажен (footling, futile, immaterial, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, light, minor, nugatory, peddling, pettifogging, petty, puerile, side, small time, trifling, two-by-four, unimportant), достатъчен съм (suffice), най-незначителен, стигам (carry down, come round, go, reach, run down, suffice), накрая (eventually, finally, lastly, rearwards, ultimately), не се износвам, не се развалям (keep), обущарски калъп, окончателен (categorical, clean, definitive, determinate, eventual, final, irrevocable, net, peremptory), край (about, abutment, border, by, close, closing, conclusion, country, curtains, death, dissolution, edge, end, ending, extremity, fag end, finale, finality, finish, flange, hem, issuance, issue, land, limb, limit, list, margin, off, on, outskirts, over, parts, past, period, point, quietus, region, rim, stop, surcease, tail, term, terminal, termination, truce, ultima thule, verge, wind up), трая (continue, endure, extend, hold, keep, save, stretch), решаващ (conclusive, crucial, decisive, determinant, determinative), слагам на калъп, смърт (curtains, death, decease, demise, departure, divide, doom, dust, dying, end, ending, exit, expiration, fatality, fate, grave, happy release, passing, quietus, tomb), модерен (advanced, exclusive, fashionable, modern, modernistic, modish, neoteric, new, sharp, up to date). (various references) | |
Catalan | passada, continuar (continue, hold). (various references) | |
Chinese | 最后 (final), 最後 (final, finally, ultimate), 为时. (various references) | |
Croatian | prošli. (various references) | |
Czech | minulý (bygone, ci-devant, past, preterite, previous). (various references) | |
Danish | vare (continue, endure, keep on), sidst, forbigangen (former, previous, prior). (various references) | |
Dutch | voorgaand (former, previous, prior), voorafgaand (former, preliminary, preparatory, previous, prior), verleden (former, past, previous, prior). (various references) | |
Esperanto | lasta, pasinta, kontinui (continue), daŭri (continue, endure, keep on), daŭradi (continue, hold), antaŭa (former, previous, prior). (various references) | |
Faeroese | liðin, vara (commodity, continue, endure, keep on, merchandise, wares), seinastur, farin. (various references) | |
Farsi | پسین (Astern, Hinder, Hindmost, Subsequent), پایستن , نهانی (Occult, Potential, Secret, Suberranean, Surreptitious, Undercover, Underhand), قطعی (Absolute, Categorical, Conclusive, Cretain, Decisive, Definite, Irrevocable, Peremptory, Positive, Sure, Trenchant, Ultimatum, Uncompromising, Unconditional), طول کشیدن , اخیر (Late, Latter, Recent), اخرین (Bottommost), اخر (End, Finale, Latter, Ultimate), دوام کردن (Wear), دوام داشتن , به درازاکشیدن , بازپسین (Ultimate). (various references) | |
Finnish | viimeinen (extreme, final, latest), viime, kestää (bear, continue, endure, keep on, stand, suffer, undergo, wear, withstand). (various references) | |
French | durer, dernier (lag, late, later, latest, latter), forme. (various references) | |
French Canadian | dernière. (various references) | |
Frisian | foarig (former, previous, prior), einichst, duorje (continue, endure, keep on). (various references) | |
German | letzte (end, endmost, final, hindmost, laste, latest, latter, most terrible, rearmost, recent, ultimate), letzter (final, Termin deadline, ultimate), leisten (accomplish, achieve, afford, do, effect, goof, groins, inguinal, keep, ledges, manage, observe, perform, put out, render, to achieve, to afford), dauern (continue, endure, go on, keep on, keep up, take, take a long time, take a while, take some time, to last), zuletzt (at last, finally, in the end, lastly), währen (continue, endure, keep on), vorig (former, past, previous, prior), anhalten (admonish, cease, come to a halt, continue, encourage, hail, halt, halted, hold up, keep up, linger, persist, persistence, pull in, scold, stop, to arrest, to stop, urge). (various references) | |
Greek | καλαπόδι (shoelast, shoetree), διαρκώ (endure). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אחרון (final, ultimate). (various references) | |
Hungarian | utolsó (dernier, ending, extreme, final, ultimate), legutóbbi (late). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lamanya (duration), lalu (afterwards, pass, past, then), terbelakang (backward, latest, retarded, under-developed), terakhir (endmost, final, lastest, ultimate), penghabisan (conclusion). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | pinasuarusiulauqtumi (last week), arraani (last year). (various references) | |
Irish | aréir (last night). (various references) | |
Italian | ultimo (bottom, end, extreme, farthest, final, finishing, hind, hindmost, late, latest, latter, past, rearmost, top, ultimate), scorso (past), durare (clamp, continue, endure, go on, halt, hold, hold out, keep, keep on, persist, stand, survive, uphold, wear), passato (bygone, departed, former, old, overpast, passe, past, past tense), continuare (continue, go, go on, hold, keep, keep on, pick up, ply, press on, proceed, proceed with, prosecute, push on, stand). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ラジウム療法 (final effort before the end, last lap, last spurt, lathe, radiator, radical, radicalist, radio, radio car, Radio City, radio compass, radio control, radio controlled models, radiocarbon test, radio-cassette, radio-cassette player, radioisotope, radiometer, radiosonde, radium therapy, RAS, raster, raster file, Remote Access Server, roster, rusk), 最終 (closing, final), 最後 (conclusion, end), 最後 (conclusion, end), 昨 (yesterday), となりの芝生は青い (also called, certainly, construction worker, of course, rather, scaffold erector, the grass is always greener on the other side, to be sure, totteringly, trudgingly, where ... is concerned). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ラスト , さいしゅう (closing, collecting, final, gathering), さいご (conclusion, end, one's last moment, one's time of death), さく (a harvest, a work, cord, crossout, curtail, fence, paling, pare, plan, plane, policy, reduce, rope, scrape off, sharpen, shave, to alienate, to avoid, to bloom, to cede, to cleave, to cut up, to divide, to separate, to sever, to spare, to split, to tear, whittle, yesterday), とべ . (various references) | |
Korean | 최후 (End, eventual). (various references) | |
Lombard | alla fin (at last, finally, ultimately). (various references) | |
Malagasy | haharitra. (various references) | |
Malay | akhirnya (at last, finally, ultimately). (various references) | |
Manx | jerrinagh (absolute, belated, closing, concluding, conclusive, end, eventual, final, finalist, foregoing, hindmost, late, late of fruit, latter, rearmost, ultimate, utmost), jeianagh (late, recent), fer s'jerree (booby), cummal rish (endure, hold on, standby), ceau (aim, carry, consume, corner, corner on road, dart, fall, hang, loose, pass, pelt, rain, rake, run out, shoot, shower; launch, shy; weather, spend, throw, wear). (various references) | |
Maya | aa'bak (last night). (various references) | |
Mohawk | shiyòkarahs (last night). (various references) | |
Norwegian | vare (item), siste (latter), forrige. (various references) | |
Occitan | darrièr (behind). (various references) | |
Papiamen | dura (continue, endure, keep on), delaster, último. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | astlay.(various references) | |
Polish | trwać (continue, endure, keep on), przedni (former, previous, prior), poprzedni (former, previous, prior), ostatni. (various references) | |
Portuguese | último (bottom, dernier, ending, final, finishing, lag, late, latter, lattermost, rearmost, ultimate, undermost, utmost). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | últimas. (various references) | |
Romanian | dura (build, continue, hold, hold out, keep, make, stand), continua (bide, carry on, carry through, continue, follow, go on, hold, keep, keep it up, keep on, keep up, persist, play off, proceed, prosecute, pursue, resume), ţine (carry, check, continue, deliver, endure, hang onto, happen, hold, keep, live, observe, own, poise, resist, retain, run, stand, stock, support, wield). (various references) | |
Romany | pèrsi (last year), iblòl (last night). (various references) | |
Russian | самый современный, самый неподходящий, крайний (extravagant, extreme, margin, out, outside, supreme, ultra, utmost, utter, uttermost), выдерживать (bear, endure, get through, live, pass, stand up under, support, sustain), в последний раз (last time), окончательный (definitive, final, peremptory, ultimate, unappealable, used up), прошлый (one-time, overpast, past), продолжаться (continue, lengthen), продлиться, последний раз последний, последний (aftermost, dernier, final, grace-cup, hindmost, late-breaking, latter, lattermost, rearmost, recent, ultima, ultimate), после всех, истекший (past), длиться (continue, go on). (various references) | |
Scottish | seas (endure, stand, support), mair (continue, live). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zadnji (after, back, hidden, hinder, latest, rear, rearward, reversing, ulterior), trajati (continue), protekli (bygone, overpast), prošli (aforetime, bygone, foregone, former, long ago, overpast, past, preceding), poslednji čovek, poslednji (aftermost, backmost, dernier, hindmost, latest, lowest, rearmost, rearward, second to none, worst), obućarski kalup, naposletku (lastly, ultimately), na kraju (end: in the end, lastly, ultimately), krajnji (crass, externally, extreme, furthermost, marginal, outermost, terminal, ultimate, ultra, utmost, uttermost), kraj (beside, by, corner, end, finish, heelpiece, landscape, lappet, parts, tail, tail end, termination, terminus), dotrajati (dilapidate, run out). (various references) | |
Sicilian | stanotti (last night). (various references) | |
Slovene | prejšnji. (various references) | |
Spanish | durar (continue, endure, hold out, hold up, keep on, last out, linger, live out), último (booby, bottommost, dernier, final, hindmost, latest, latter, rearmost, top, ultimate), postrero (hindmost), por último (ultimately), perdurar (endure, take), horma (block, boot tree, form, formfeed, mould, shape, tree), continuar (carry on, continue, drag on, endure, get along with smth., go on, hold, keep, keep on, keep up, last out, proceed with, pursue, push on, remain, resume, sustain). (various references) | |
Swahili | -a mwisho, a mwisho. (various references) | |
Swedish | ytterst (exceedingly, extreme, extremely, farthest, furthermost, furthest, in the extreme, most, outermost, outmost, outside, uterly, utmost, utterly, very), vara (article, be, care, commodity, endure, exist, make, merchandise, product, suppurate, to be, wares), sist (latest), läst (tree), hålla (bear, carry, contain, deliver, hang onto, hold, keep, lay, retain, take), förra (former, late). (various references) | |
Tagalog | noong, hulí sa lahát. (various references) | |
Thai | ในที่สุด (eventually, finally), เป็นไปได้น้อยที่สุด, ช่วงสุดท้าย (ending), สุดท้าย (final, lastly), ที่คงเหลืออยู่สิ่งเดียว, ล่าสุด (late, latest), คงอยู่, ครั้งล่าสุด. (various references) | |
Turkish | geçen (former, hereinabove, in excess of, late, other, passing, transitive, yester). (various references) | |
Turkmen | soсky (final), цten, gutarnykly (final), ahyryn, ahyrky (final). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | смерть (bane, death, decease, end, quietus), єдиний (mere, one, only, only begotten, single, singular, sole), тривати (continue, proceed), кінець (close, closing, decline, end, extremity, finish, outcome, overthrow, terminal, truce), востаннє, вистачати (suffice), витримувати (age, bear, carry, carry off, hold up, live, sweat out, tolerate, weather), останній (aftermost, bottom, final, latter, rearmost, ultimate, utmost, uttermost), найновіший (latter day, neoteric, new), минулий (ancient, backward, bygone, departed, erstwhile, former, gone, one time, overblown, overpast, past), зберігатися (keep, survive, wear), після всіх. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lúc lâm chung sức chịu đựng, lần sau cùng, sau cùng (lastly, ultimate, ultimately), sức bền bỉ sau hết, rốt cuộc nhìn vật gì lần sau cùng đén cùng, người sau cùng lần cuối, người cuối cùng, khuôn giày, giờ phút cuối cùng lúc chết, đến hơi thở cuối cùng, đến giờ chót. (various references) | |
Welsh | par.hau (continue, persevere), olaf, diwethaf, dal (arrest, capture, catch, continue, grapple, hold). (various references) | |
Wolof | yàgg (to last a long time). (various references) | |
Yucatec | -ak. (various references) | |
Zulu | -qhubeka (continue, endure, keep on). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | eskhatos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | continuo, dora, dura, durantur, duratur, duro, extremus, imaasia, imus, inferam, inferas, inferi, inferior, inferiora, inferiorem, inferiores, inferiori, inferioribus, inferioris, inferis, infero, inferorum, inferos, inferus, maneo, novissima, novissimae, novissimam, novissimas, novissimi, novissimis, novissimo, novissimorum, novissimos, novissimum, novissimus, obduro, omega, permane, permaneamus, permaneant, permaneas, permaneat, permaneatque, permanebant, permanebat, permanebimus, permanebis, permanebit, permanebo, permanebunt, permanens, permanent, permanentes, permaneo, permanere, permanerent, permanes, permanet, permanetis, permanserant, permanserint, permanserit, permanseritis, permanserunt, permansissent, permansistis, permansit, perstat, postremo, postumus, summa, summam, summaque, summas, summi, summis, summo, summoque, summum, summus, superiora, superiorem, superiores, superiori, superioribus, superioris, superius, supremo, supremum, ulterius, ultima, ultimam, ultimo, ultimum. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | apêmem, upemem. (various references) |
| Arabic | 500-Modern | qalib. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 20, Verse 8 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | OyiaV de genomenhV legei o kurioV tou ampelwnoV tw epitropw autou kaleson touV ergataV kai apodoV autoiV ton misqon arxamenoV apo twn escatwn ewV twn prwtwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cum sero autem factum esset dicit dominus vineae procuratori suo voca operarios et redde illis mercedem incipiens a novissimis usque ad primos |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Soðlice þa hyt wæs æfen ge-worðen.þa sægde þas wingeardes hlaford hys ge-refen. Clepe þa werhtan. & gyf heom heoremede. agyn fram þam ytemestan. oð þannefyrmesten. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne euenyng was comun, the lord of the vyneyerd seith to his procuratoure, Clepe the werk men, and yelde to hem her hire, and bigynne thou at the laste til to the firste. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | When even was come the lorde of the vyneyarde sayde vnto hys steward: call the labourers and geve them their hyre beginnyng at ye laste tyll thou come to ye fyrste. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | So when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the laborers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last to the first. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And when evening came, the lord of the vine-garden said to his manager, Let the workers come, and give them their payment, from the last to the first. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 20, Verse 8 |
| Cebuano | Ug sa pagkasawomsom na, ang tag-iya sa parrasan miingon sa iyang piniyalan, `Tawga na ang mga mamumoo ug bayri sila sa ilang mga suhol, sugod sa mga naulahig tangka hangtud sa mga nahiuna.` |
| Chinese | 到 了 晚 上 、 園 主 對 管 事 的 說 、 叫 工 人 都 來 、 給 他 們 工 錢 、 從 後 來 的 起 、 到 先 來 的 為 止 。 |
| Croatian | "Uveèer kaže gospodar vinograda svojemu upravitelju: 'Pozovi radnike i podaj im plaæu poèevši od posljednjih pa sve do prvih.' |
| Danish | Men da det var blevet Aften, siger Vingårdens Herre til sin Foged: Kald på Arbejderne, og betal dem deres Løn, idet du begynder med de sidste og ender med de første! |
| Dutch | Als het nu avond geworden was, zeide de heer des wijngaards, tot zijn rentmeester: Roep de arbeiders, en geef hun het loon, beginnende van de laatsten tot de eersten. |
| Finnish | Mutta kun ilta tuli, sanoi viinitarhan herra tilansa hoitajalle: `Kutsu työmiehet ja maksa heille palkka, viimeisistä alkaen ensimmäisiin asti`. |
| French | Quand le soir fut venu, le maître de la vigne dit à son intendant: Appelle les ouvriers, et paie-leur le salaire, en allant des derniers aux premiers. |
| German | Da es nun Abend ward, sprach der Herr des Weinberges zu seinem Schaffner: Rufe die Arbeiter und gib ihnen den Lohn und heb an an den Letzten bis zu den Ersten. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Petang hari, pemilik kebun anggur itu berkata kepada mandurnya, 'Panggillah pekerja-pekerja itu dan bayarlah upah mereka masing-masing, mulai dari orang yang masuk terakhir sampai kepada yang masuk pertama.' |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Setelah malam hari, maka kata tuan yang empunya kebun anggur itu kepada mandurnya: Panggillah orang yang bekerja itu, bayarlah upahnya, mulai daripada orang yang terakhir masuk sampai kepada yang mula-mula. |
| Italian | Quando fu sera, il padrone della vigna disse al suo fattore: Chiama gli operai e dà loro la paga, incominciando dagli ultimi fino ai primi. |
| Manx Gaelic | Myr shen tra va'n fastyr er jeet, dooyrt chiarn y gharey-feeyney rish y stiurt echey, Eie er ny labreeyn, as cur daue nyn vaill, goaill toshiaght veih yn vooinjer s'jerree gys y chied eallagh. |
| Maori | A, no te ahiahi ka mea te rangatira o te mara waina ki tana kaiwhakahauhau, Karangatia nga kaimahi, utua hoki ratou, hei o muri timata ai puta noa ki o mua. |
| Norwegian | Men da det var blitt aften, sa vingårdens herre til sin forvalter: Kall arbeiderne frem og gi dem deres lønn; begynn med de siste og end med de første! |
| Portuguese | Ao anoitecer, disse o senhor da vinha ao seu mordomo: Chama os trabalhadores, e paga-lhes o salário, começando pelos últimos até os primeiros. |
| Rumanian | Seara, stqpknul viei a zis ispravnicului squ: ,Cheamq pe lucrqtori, wi dq-le plata, kncepknd de la cei de pe urmq, pknq la cei dintki. |
| Russian | лПЗДБ ЦЕ ОБУФХРЙМ ЧЕЮЕТ, ЗПЧПТЙФ ЗПУРПДЙО ЧЙОПЗТБДОЙЛБ ХРТБЧЙФЕМА УЧПЕНХ: РПЪПЧЙ ТБВПФОЙЛПЧ Й ПФДБК ЙН РМБФХ, ОБЮБЧ У РПУМЕДОЙИ ДП РЕТЧЩИ. |
| Shuar | `Kirit Ajátekiái takatrin Wáinniun timiai "Takatan takasaru untsukam akikiarta. Kíarai nankamawaru emka akikiarta. Túram Káshik nankamawarujai Amuktá" timiai. |
| Spanish | Al llegar la noche, dijo el señor de la viña a su mayordomo: "Llama a los obreros y págales el jornal. Comienza desde los últimos hasta los primeros." |
| Swahili | "Kulipokuchwa, huyo mwenye shamba alimwambia mtunza hazina wake, `Waite wafanyakazi ukawalipe mshahara wao, ukianzia na wale walioajiriwa mwisho, na kumalizia na wale wa kwanza.` |
| Swedish | När det så hade blivit afton, sade vingårdens herre till sin förvaltare: 'Kalla fram arbetarna och giv dem deras lön, men begynn med de sista och gå så tillbaka ända till de första.' |
| Uma | "Limpa-mi eo, na'uli' -mi pue' bonea hi mantoro' -na: `Kio' -ramo topobago toera ria, pai' wai' -ramo gaji' -ra. Wai' ulu gaji' hi tauna to lako' ntepu'u mobago jaa lima we'i. Oti toe, wai' gaji' hi tauna to ntepu'u mobago jaa tolu, duu' rata hi tauna to mobago ngkai mepuloa.' |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "last": lasted, laster, lasters, lasting, lastingly, lastingness, lastingnesses, lastings, lastly, lasts. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "last": ameloblast, amyloplast, ballast, blast, blepharoplast, chloroplast, chromoplast, clast, counterblast, epiblast, erythroblast, fibroblast, hypoblast, iconoclast, idioblast, kinetoplast, leucoplast, lymphoblast, megaloblast, melanoblast, myeloblast, myoblast, oblast, odontoblast, osteoblast, osteoclast, outlast, periplast, phragmoplast, protoplast, sandblast, spheroplast, statoblast, tonoplast, trophoblast, windblast. (additional references) | |
Words containing "last": achondroplastic, aeroelastic, aeroelasticities, aeroelasticity, alastor, alastors, ameloblasts, amyloplasts, anaplastic, anelastic, anelasticities, anelasticity, angioplasties, angioplasty, antineoplastic, aplastic, ballasted, ballasting, ballasts, blasted, blastema, blastemal, blastemas, blastemata, blastematic, blaster, blasters, blastie, blastier, blasties, blastiest, blasting, blastings, blastment, blastments, blastocoel, blastocoele, blastocoeles, blastocoelic, blastocoels, blastocyst, blastocysts, blastoderm, blastoderms, blastodisc, blastodiscs, blastoff, blastoffs, blastoma, blastomas, blastomata. (additional references) | |
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"Last" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alast, alist, alst, elfast, glasto, hlast, iast, kast, kazt, laat, laatu, lact, laet, laeti, laist, lakt, lant, lapt, lart, las, lasa, lasb, lasc, lasht, lasi, lasm, lasst, laste, lasty, lasx, lats, latsi, latst, latt, laust, laut, lautt, lawt, laxt, layt, laz, lazet, lazt, leest, leeste, lerste, leseth, lesta, lestr, lezt, lisq, lista, listi, listn, listo, listy, lits, lizt, Lizti, ljas, lostr, ls, lsa, lst, lusit, Lusta, lyst, Vlasta, yast. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "last" (pronounced la"st, lô"st , or la"s) |
| 4 | l a" s t | blast, classed, glassed. |
| 3 | -a" s t | aghast, amassed, assed, Bast, cast, caste, fast, gassed, Gast, grassed, harassed, hast, lambaste, massed, mast, miscast, passed, past, precast, recast, surpassed, unsurpassed, vast. |
| 4 | l ô" s t | glossed, lost. |
| 3 | -ô" s t | accost, crossed, defrost, embossed, exhaust, frost, tossed. |
| 3 | l a" s | alas, class, glass, lass. |
| 2 | -a" s | amass, ass, bass, bras, brass, chasse, crass, gas, grass, harass, impasse, mass, Masse, morass, pass, Ras, repass, sass, surpass, Tass. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: alts, lats, salt, slat. | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-s-t" | |
-1 letter: als, alt, las, lat, sal, sat, tas. | |
-2 letters: al, as, at, la, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-s-t" | |
+1 letter: alist, altos, atlas, blast, blats, clast, flats, halts, lasts, laths, least, litas, lotas, malts, plats, salts, salty, sault, setal, shalt, slant, slate, slats, slaty, smalt, splat, stale, stalk, stall, steal, stela, taels, tails, talas, talcs, tales, talks, talus, teals, tesla, tolas. | |
+2 letters: ablest, adults, aglets, alants, alates, alerts, allots, almost, altars, alters, artels, aslant, astral, atolls, basalt, blasts, blasty, bleats, bloats, castle, claspt, clasts, cleats, costal, cutlas, deltas, desalt, distal, eclats, elates, estral, exalts, faults, festal, flatus, floats, flotas, gaslit, gaults, gloats, halest, haslet, instal, lamest, lasted, laster, lastly, latens, latest, lathes, lathis, latish, latkes, lattes, laxest, leasts, lotahs, lovats, lustra, lysate, lyttas, metals, oblast, osteal, palest, palets, pastel, pastil, petals, plaits, plants, plates, platys, pleats, postal, ratals, ratels, sallet, salted, salter, saltie, salute, samlet, santol, saults, septal, shelta, skatol, slants, slanty, slatch, slated, slater, slates, slatey, smalti, smalto, smalts, solate, spital, splats, stable, stably, stalag, staled, staler, stales, stalks, stalky, stalls, staple, statal, steals, stelae, stelai, stelar, stella, stomal, stylar, sultan, tablas, tables, tahsil, talars, talers, tallis, talons, taluks, tamals, tarsal, tassel, teasel, tepals, teslas, ticals, tilaks, tolans, tolars, totals, trails, trawls, trials, tussal, ultras, valets, vastly, vaults, vestal, vitals. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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