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1.Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
- Eyes Wide Shut was the last film to be directed by Stanley Kubrick.
- Will try to fix it by myself for now: as a last resort, we can always take it to a grease monkey.
2.Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
- The last person I want to meet is Helen.
- He is the last person to be accused of theft.
- More rain is the last thing we need right now.
3.Being the only one remaining of its class.
- Japan is the last empire.
4.Most recent, latest, last so far.
- The last time I saw him, he was married.
- In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”, junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties, last year.
- She told him the last news about little Georgy, and how he was gone to spend that very day with his sisters in the country.

1.The (one) immediately before the present.
- I was last to go; you're next.
- We went there last year.
2.Closest in the past, or closest but one if the closest was very recent; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) ago, or the most recent instance before seven days (one week) ago.
- Where my brother had stood last night, I now stood.
- When you say last Monday, do you mean the Monday just gone, or the one before that?
- It's Wednesday, and the party was last Tuesday; that is, not yesterday, but eight days ago.

1.Most recently.
- When we last met, he was based in Toronto.
- How long is't now since last yourself and I / Were in a mask?
2.after everything else; finally
- As I arrived last of all, I'll go last to add the butter last.
- Pleased with his idol, he commends, admires, / Adores; and, last, the thing adored desires.

Very common· #139

From Middle English laste, latst, syncopated variant of latest, both ultimately from Old English latost.

Doublet of latest.