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Definition: Last-ditch |
Last-ditchAdjective1. Of something done as a final recourse (especially to prevent a crisis or disaster); "a last-ditch attempt". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "last-ditch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1960. (references) |
Crosswords: Last-ditch |
| English words defined with "last-ditch": battle of Wake, battle of Wake Island. (references) |
| "Last-ditch" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 93.94% of the time. "Last-ditch" is used about 33 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 93.94% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.06% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "last-ditch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 最后挣扎. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kétségbeesett (despairing, desperate, forlorn, last ditch). (various references) | |
Korean | 마지막 도랑. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ast-ditchlay.(various references) | |
Russian | отчаянный (desperate, foolhardy, reckless, temerarious), беззаветный (absolute, whole-hearted). (various references) | |
Thai | ที่สุ"ท้าย. (various references) | |
Turkish | son savunma (last-ditch stand), son çare (desperate remedy, last-ditch stand). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cuối cùng một mất một còn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-h-i-l-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: cattish, chitals, cladist, tachist. | |
-3 letters: alcids, attics, chital, dicast, distal, halids, laichs, lathis, latish, lichts, slatch, static, stitch, tahsil, ticals, tilths. | |
-4 letters: acids, adits, aitch, alcid, alist, asdic, atilt, attic, cadis, caids, chads, chats, chias, child, chits, clads, clash, clast, clits, dahls, dashi, dhals, dials, dicta, ditas, ditch, hadst, hails, halid, halts, hilts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-h-i-l-s-t-t" | |
+4 letters: straightlaced. | |
+5 letters: tetrachlorides. | |
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