Last
//lɑːst//
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The word "last" can be used as noun, adjective, verb, adjective, determiner, adverb, adverb and proper noun.
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Fermat's last theorem I can't remember the last time at last at long last at the last at the last minute at the last moment ballast be born last week belast belay my last born at night but not last night breathe one's last breathe one's last breath close one's eyes for the last time cobbler, keep to your last come down in the last shower court of last resort darning last darning last dead last die in the last ditch draw one's last breath drug of last resort everlast every last fall at the last hurdle famous last words first and last first to last for the last time forelast get on someone's last nerve get the last laugh have seen one's last gum tree have the last laugh he laughs best that laughs last he who laughs last laughs best he who laughs last laughs hardest hear the last of if it's the last thing I do in the last analysis laglast last 16 last I checked last I heard last antecedent rule last big thing last burst of fire last but one last call last cast last chance saloon last chicken in the shop last common ancestor last dance last day last ditch last eight last four last frontier last full measure last gasp last honors last honours last hoorah last hurrah last in first out last kilometre last known good last last last man standing last meal last mile last mile school last minute last moment last nail in the coffin last name last night last of the big spenders last orders last out last parsec problem last photon orbit last post last quarter last resort last respects last rites last roundup last scattering surface last sixteen last stand last straw last survivor last thing last thing one needs last time last time I checked last trump last trumpet last universal ancestor last universal common ancestor last week last will last will and testament last word last words last year last-born last-ditch last-ditcher last-gasp last-mentioned last-minute last-named last-time last-wordism lastability lastable lastborn laster lasting lastness lender of last resort let the cobbler stick to his last letter of last resort next to last next-to-last nice guys finish last on one's last legs one's last outlast pay one's last respects put the last hand to save the best for last second from last second last second to last second-from-last second-last second-to-last stick to one's last the last I heard the last day the last favour the last of the last of pea-time the night before last the pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last third last third to last to the last to the last man too good to last trade-last unlast until the last dog is hung what did your last slave die of who was your servant last year with one's last breath you're only as good as your last shift
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