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LAST BUT NOT LEAST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does last but not least mean?
• LAST BUT NOT LEAST (adverb)
The adverb LAST BUT NOT LEAST has 1 sense:
1. in addition to all the foregoing
Familiarity information: LAST BUT NOT LEAST used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In addition to all the foregoing
Synonyms:
last but not least; last not least
Context example:
last not least he plays the saxophone
Context examples
He was small, as I have said; I was struck besides with the shocking expression of his face, with his remarkable combination of great muscular activity and great apparent debility of constitution, and—last but not least—with the odd, subjective disturbance caused by his neighbourhood.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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