The Meaning of last

• (v. i.) To continue in time; to endure; to remain in existence.
• (v. i.) 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.
• (v. i.) A wooden block shaped like the human foot, on which boots and shoes are formed.
• (v. t.) To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last; as, to last a boot.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) The burden of a ship; a cargo.
• (3d pers. sing. pres.) of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.
• (a.) 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.
• (a.) Next before the present; as, I saw him last week.
• (a.) Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
• (a.) Lowest in rank or degree; as, the last prize.
• (a.) 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.
• (a.) 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.
• (a.) In conclusion; finally.
• (a.) At a time next preceding the present time.

Synonyms

stopping point , finale , finis , finish , conclusion , close , death , end , final stage , shoemaker's last , cobbler's last , endure , survive , live , live on , go , endure , hold up , hold out , concluding , final , terminal , final , net , utmost , final , last-place , lowest , lastly , in conclusion , finally

Antonyms

first

Rhymes

accost , aghast , alas , alsace , amass , amassed , asked , ass , assed , ast , aust , bass , basse , bast , belfast , blass , blast , bluegrass , bossed , bost , bras , brass , broadcast , brost , bypass , cas , casque , cass , cast , caste , chasse , chloroplast , class , classed , colorfast , contrast , contrasts , cost , crass , crossed , defrost , depass , dost , downcast , drost , droste , eelgrass , embossed , enthusiast , exhaust , eyeglass , fahs , fass , fast , fiberglas , fiberglass , flabbergast , forecast , forecasts , frost , gas , gass , gassed , gast , ghast , glas , glass , glossed , glost , gras , grass , grasse , harass , harassed , hass , hast , holdfast , holocaust , hourglass , iconoclast , impasse , jackass , jass , jost , kast , klas , klass , knost , kost , kras , krass , kvass , lacoste , lambaste , lambastes , landmass , lass , lightfast , lost , lymphoblast , mass , masse , massed , mast , maust , middle-class , miscast , morass , nass , nast , newscast , outcast , outclass , outlast , overcast , overpass , pass , passed , past , pentecost , pfost , plas , plass , plasse , plexiglas , plexiglass , precast , prendergast , ras , rast , rebroadcast , recast , repass , rost , sandblast , sas , sass , sassafras , sasse , shortgrass , simulcast , spyglass , steadfast , strass , sunglass , surpass , surpassed , tallgrass , tass , tasse , telecast , tossed , trass , trespass , trost , typecast , umass , underpass , unsurpassed , vanasse , vass , vast , wrasse , yass , yoest