last word
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.16 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The finest, highest, or ultimate representative of some class of objects.
noun
A concluding remark; final advice, instructions, or observation.
Example Sentences
- "Little Joe's mother's cake was the last word in cakes; [...]"
- "Michaelis was the last word in what was caddish and bounderish."
- "["]I have got my leave, and that is all I want." / "You had better receive the last word from my mother," said the marquis. / "Very good; I will go and get it," said Newman; and he prepared to return to the drawing-room."
- "[W]hen we had grasped hands for the last time and had said our last good-bye, he added this one more last word: "Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know.""
- "Benjamin Franklin [...] pondered over his last words for as much as two weeks, and then when the time came, he said, "None but the brave deserve the fair," and died happy."
- "This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate."