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LASTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lastly mean? 

LASTLY (adverb)
  The adverb LASTLY has 1 sense:

1. the item at the endplay

  Familiarity information: LASTLY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LASTLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The item at the end

Synonyms:

finally; in conclusion; last; lastly

Context example:

last, I'll discuss family values


 Context examples 


Lastly, element number 118, oganesson, is named for a Russian physicist, Yuri Oganessian, team leader from the synthesis of tennessine, element 117.

(IUPAC proposes four new chemical element names, Wikinews)

Six—a box of monies, three pounds of Limousine gold-work, a pair of boots, silver tagged, and, lastly, a store of naping linen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Lastly, Mr. Bhaer was dressed in a new suit of black, which made him look more like a gentleman than ever.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Lastly, the researchers asked participants to view a video of a rejection in action, to assess if feelings of forgiveness can be affected.

(Sometimes You Shouldn't Say Sorry, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Lastly, association of BTG2 and BTG1 with Caf1 is also reported to modulate transcriptional activity of CAF1.

(BTG Cell Cycle Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Lastly, confirm your accommodations and double-check all addresses.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Lastly, I desired him to see the breeches I had then on, which were made of a mouse’s skin.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I don't know what the tunes were—if there were such things in the performance at all, which I doubt—but the influence of the strain upon me was, first, to make me think of all my sorrows until I could hardly keep my tears back; then to take away my appetite; and lastly, to make me so sleepy that I couldn't keep my eyes open.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was some relief, however, that they were to return to the rooms in common use, by passing through a few of less importance, looking into the court, which, with occasional passages, not wholly unintricate, connected the different sides; and she was further soothed in her progress by being told that she was treading what had once been a cloister, having traces of cells pointed out, and observing several doors that were neither opened nor explained to her—by finding herself successively in a billiard-room, and in the general's private apartment, without comprehending their connection, or being able to turn aright when she left them; and lastly, by passing through a dark little room, owning Henry's authority, and strewed with his litter of books, guns, and greatcoats.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The death of William, the execution of Justine, the murder of Clerval, and lastly of my wife; even at that moment I knew not that my only remaining friends were safe from the malignity of the fiend; my father even now might be writhing under his grasp, and Ernest might be dead at his feet.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)



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