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/lɑːst/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjFinal, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
adjMost recent, latest, last so far.
Sentence Examples
The last person I told my idea to thought I was nuts.
Thanks for having explained to me at last why people take me for an idiot.
He came last in the race.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The old bridge might ____ through the storm if it is strong enough.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
This is the ____ time that I am going to remind you to finish your homework before you go out to play.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English laste, latst, syncopated variant of latest, both ultimately from Old English latost. Doublet of latest.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer."
— 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
"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."
— 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
"In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year."
— 2013 May 25, “No Hiding Place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
"Contending for principles of the last importance."
— 1802, Robert Hall, Reflections on War:
"In one word then, unless I could unfold the mystery, I will not wish you to consider me but as the last and lowest of mankind."
— 1797 May 8 (first performance), Richard Cumberland, “The Last of the Family. A Comedy.”, in Frances Marianne [Cumberland] Jansen, editor, The Posthumous Dramatick Works of the Late Richard Cumberland, Esq. […], volume II, London: […] [F]or G[eorge] and W[illiam] Nicol, […]; by W[illiam] Bulmer and Co., […], published 1813, →OCLC, Act III, scene [iii], page 237:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The old bridge might ____ through the storm if it is strong enough.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
This is the ____ time that I am going to remind you to finish your homework before you go out to play.