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- (UK) enPR: läst, IPA: /lɑːst/, SAMPA: /lA:st/
- (US) enPR: lăst, IPA: /læst/, SAMPA: /l{st/
- Rhymes: -ɑːst
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[edit] Etymology 1
Old English latost
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last (not comparable)
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last
- after everything else
- finally
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[edit] Etymology 2
Old English lǣstan, from Germanic *laisti-. Cognate with German leisten ‘yield’.
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to last (third-person singular simple present lasts, present participle lasting, simple past and past participle lasted)
- (obsolete, transitive) To perform, carry out.
- (intransitive) To endure, continue over time.
- Summer seems to last longer each year.
- (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
- I don't know how much longer we can last without reinforcements.
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last (plural lasts)
- a tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes
- 2006, Newman, Cathy, Every Shoe Tells a Story, National Geographic (September, 2006), 83,
- How is an in-your-face black leather thigh-high lace-up boot with a four-inch spike heel like a man's black calf lace-up oxford? They are both made on a last, the wood or plastic foot-shaped form that leather is stretched over and shaped to make a shoe.
- 2006, Newman, Cathy, Every Shoe Tells a Story, National Geographic (September, 2006), 83,
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last (plural lasts)
- (obsolete) An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, containing 12 sacks or 2184 pounds.
- 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, page 169,
- The last of wool is twelve sacks.
- 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, page 169,
- (obsolete) An old English (and Dutch) measure of the carrying capacity of a ship, equal to two tons.
- 1942 (1601), T D Mutch, The First Discovery of Australia, page 14,
- The tonnage of the Duyfken of Harmensz's fleet is given as 25 and 30 lasten.
- 1942 (1601), T D Mutch, The First Discovery of Australia, page 14,
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last c.
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last f.
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Descended from Germanic, along with the feminine variant lǣst. Cognate with Middle Dutch leest (Dutch leest), Old High German leist (German Leiste), Old Norse leist-r ‘foot, sock’ (Swedish, Danish läst).
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- IPA: /la:st/
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lāst m. (pl.: lāstas)
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Common Slavic volst
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last f.
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last
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| Base form | last | lasten | laster | lasterna |
| Possessive form | lasts | lastens | lasters | lasternas |