Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
“Will try to fix it by myself for now: as a last resort, we can always take it to a grease monkey.”
“Eyes Wide Shut was the last film to be directed by Stanley Kubrick.”
Most recent, latest, last so far.
“The last time I saw him, he was married.”
“I have received your note dated the 17th last, and am responding to say that[…]”
Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
“He is the last person to be accused of theft.”
“The last person I want to meet is Helen.”
Being the only one remaining of its class.
“Japan is the last empire.”
Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
“Contending for principles of the last importance.”
Lowest in rank or degree.
“Three contestants will win awards, but the last prize is just a book voucher.”
“In one word then, unless I could unfold the mystery, I will not wish you to consider me but as the last and lowest of mankind.”

adv

Etymology: From Middle English laste, latst, syncopated variant of latest, both ultimately from Old English latost. Doublet of latest.

Most recently.
“When we last met, he was based in Toronto.”
“How long is't now since last yourself and I / Were in a mask?”
after everything else; finally
“As I arrived last of all, I'll go last to add the butter last.”
“last but not least”

det

Etymology: From Middle English laste, latst, syncopated variant of latest, both ultimately from Old English latost. Doublet of latest.

The (one) immediately before the present.
“We went there last year.”
“I was last to go; you're next.”
Closest in the past, or closest but one if the closest was very recent; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) ago, or the most recent instance before seven days (one week) ago.
“It's Wednesday, and the party was last Tuesday; that is, not yesterday, but eight days ago.”
“When you say last Monday, do you mean the Monday just gone, or the one before that?”

name

Etymology: Various origins: * English metonymic occupational surname for a cobbler, from last (“a tool for shaping shoes”). Compare Laster. * Also as an English surname, from the adjective last. * Borrowed from Dutch and German Last, an occupational surname for a porter (see the German entry below).

A surname.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English last, from Old English hlæst (“burden, load, freight”), from Proto-Germanic *hlastuz (“burden, load, freight”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”). Cognate with West Frisian lêst, Dutch last, German Last, Swedish last, Icelandic lest.

A burden; load; a cargo; freight.
A measure of weight or quantity, varying in designation depending on the goods concerned.
“Now we so quietly followed our businesse, that in three moneths wee made three or foure Last of Tarre, Pitch, and Sope ashes [...].”
“The last of wool is twelve sacks.”
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.”
A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.

verb

Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English lest, leste (“shoemaker’s model shaped like a foot, last”), from Old English lǣste (“shoemaker‘s last”), from Proto-Germanic *laistiz, from *laisǭ (“track, trail”), from Proto-Indo-European *leys-eh₂-, from *leys- (“to trace; to track”). Doublet of learn and lore. The verb is derived from the noun. cognates * Dutch leest * German Leisten * Proto-Germanic *laistaz (“footprint”) * Swedish läst

To shape (an item of footwear such as a boot or shoe) during its manufacture or repair while it is placed on a last (noun etymology 3, noun sense 1).
“to last a boot”
“I now begin to last the boot, shoe, or clog with a wax thread, in the same way as boot or shoemakers brace the toe-part of a boot or shoe down to the inner sole, but no nails or tacks must be used, […]”