(British English also last but one) the one before the last one She finished second to last. to/till the last until the last possible moment, especially until death He died protesting his innocence to the last. See last in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary Check pronunciation:...
Dictionaries Grammar Word Lists Resources English Enter search text Definition of last 1 determiner from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionarylast1 determiner /lɑːst/ /læst/Idioms happening or coming after all other similar things or people We caught the last bus home. It's the...
Jonathan C. Randal
In the phrases, 'you are the last man I should consult' 'this is the last place in which I should expect to find you,' the word last implies improbability; this is the most improbable place, and therefore I should resort to it last. L'AST, adv. 1. The last time; the time before...
Defining the word “the” is really difficultThe word “the” is one of the most common words in English.___ For example, why do we say,“I have the flu,”but not“I have the headache?”In theOxfordEnglishDictionary,there are almost two dozen different ways the word can be used in...
Last month, "add oil", a direct translation of "jiayou", was added to the online Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The phrase ___ (refer) to adding fuel into a vehicle. ___ is believed to have originated as a cheer at the Macao Grand Prix (骑车大赛) during the 1960s. Chinese peop...
Influences of Chinese Cultural Patterns of Thinking on Discourse Organisation in English Dissertation Writing 'Dissertation', derives from the Latin word 'dissert膩ti艒', which means 'discourse'. According to the Oxford Dictionary, a "Dissertation is a long essay, especially one written for a univer...
This chapter explores the broadly construed “last decade” of Elizabeth I’s reign and of the Tudor period as a whole, from the 1588 defeat of the Spanish Armada by, in the assessment of English contemporaries, a “protestant wind” and the...
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outlastsomebody/somethingVerb Forms to continue to exist or take part in an activity for a longer time than someone or somethingHe can outlast anyone on the dance floor. Definitions on the go Look up any word in the dictionary offline, anytime, anywhere with theOxford Advanced Learner’s D...