last

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Adjective 1.2.1.1 Synonyms 1.2.1.2 Translations 1.2.2 Adverb 1.2.2.1 Synonyms 1.2.2.2 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Verb 1.3.1.1 Synonyms 1.3.1.2 Antonyms 1.3.1.3 Translations 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Noun 1.5 Etymology 4 1.5.1 Noun 1.5.1.1 Translations 1.5.1.2 Related terms 1.6 Anagrams 2 Danish 2.1 Noun 3 Dutch 3.1 Noun 3.1.1 Derived terms 4 Old English 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Pronunciation 4.3 Noun 4.3.1 Related terms 5 Slovene 5.1 Etymology 5.2 Noun 6 Swedish 6.1 Pronunciation 6.2 Noun 6.2.1 See also

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: läst, IPA: /lɑːst/, SAMPA: /lA:st/
• (US) enPR: lăst, IPA: /læst/, SAMPA: /l{st/
• Rhymes: -ɑːst
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

[edit] Etymology 1

Old English latost

[edit] Adjective

last (not comparable)

1. Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
2. Most recent, latest, last so far.

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• (final): at the end, caboose, final, tail end, terminal
• (most recent): latest, most recent

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last

1. after everything else
2. finally

   last but not least

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• finally
• lastly

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[edit] Etymology 2

Old English lǣstan, from Germanic *laisti-. Cognate with German leisten ‘yield’.

[edit] Verb

to last (third-person singular simple present lasts, present participle lasting, simple past and past participle lasted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To perform, carry out.
2. (intransitive) To endure, continue over time.

   Summer seems to last longer each year.

3. (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.

   I don't know how much longer we can last without reinforcements.

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• continue
• endure
• survive

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• disintegrate
• dissipate
• fall apart
• wear out

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[edit] Etymology 3

Old English læste.

[edit] Noun

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last (plural lasts)

1. 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.

[edit] Etymology 4

Old English hlæst.

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last (plural lasts)

1. (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.

2. (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.

[edit] Translations

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• everlasting
• lasting

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: alst
• lats
• salt
• slat

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[edit] Danish

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last c.

1. load, burden

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last f.

1. load, burden

[edit] Derived terms

• belasten
• belasting

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[edit] Old English

[edit] Etymology

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).

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /la:st/

[edit] Noun

lāst m. (pl.: lāstas)

1. footstep, track

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• lǣstan

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[edit] Slovene

[edit] Etymology

Common Slavic volst

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last f.

1. property

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[edit] Swedish

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[edit] Noun

last

Inflection for last	Singular		Plural
common	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Base form	last	lasten	laster	lasterna
Possessive form	lasts	lastens	lasters	lasternas

1. cargo
2. load
3. habit which is difficult to get rid of, vice

   Rökning var hans enda last

[edit] See also

• lasta (1)
• lastbil (1)
• vana (3)
• ovana (3)