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LAST MAN

Crosswords: LAST MAN

English words defined with "LAST MAN": End manlast. (references)
Specialty definitions using "LAST MAN": Devil catch the Hindmost. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: LAST MAN

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Literature

Last Man (The) Charles I. was so called by the Parliamentarians, meaning that he would be the last king of Great Britain. His son, Charles II., was called The Son of the Last Man.
Last Man A weirdly grotesque poem by Thomas Hood.
"So there he hung, and there I stood,
The last man left alive." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Usage: LAST MAN

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Screenplays

It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free. (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

The last man in that safe who didn't work here, my Daddy shot in his tracks. (Happy, Texas; writing credit: Ed Stone; Mark Illsley)

I might sleep with you if you were the last man on earthbut this isn't earth. (Ghosts of Mars; writing credit: Larry Sulkis; John Carpenter)

Movie/TV Titles

The Last Man to Hang (1956)

To the Last Man (1933)

The Last Man (1932)

To the Last Man (1930)

The Last Man (1924)

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Commercial Usage: LAST MAN

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Books

  • Last Man Down: A New York City Fire Chief and the Collapse of the World Trade Center (reference)

  • The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space (reference)

  • Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt (reference)

  • The last man jailed for blasphemy (reference)

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Theater & Movies

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Use in Literature: LAST MAN

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The last man who drew water from that well was Guillaume Van Kylsom.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Men esteem truth remote, in the outskirts of the system, behind the farthest star, before Adam and after the last man.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LAST MAN

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

last man standing

108

y the last man

26

to the last man

18

the last man on earth

16

last man on the moon

7

just last man

6

bald buffy episode fourth from last man season

5

american last man

5

bbc last man standing

4

dog last man

3

bruce last man standing willis

3

last man standing wizard

3

last man down

2

band last man standing

2

last man on planet earth

2

last man running

2

first last man

2

combination last man shoes

2
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Modern Translation: LAST MAN

Language Translations for "LAST MAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

viimeiseen mieheen (to the last man), miehissä (all together, in force, to the last man). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

utolsó szálig (to a man, to the last man), egytől egyig (each and all of us, to a man, to the last man). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

astlay anmay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: LAST MAN

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Middle English1100-1500

lag-mon. (various references)

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Anagrams: LAST MAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-l-m-n-s-t"

-1 letter: alants, aslant, atmans, manats, mantas, tamals.

-2 letters: alans, alant, almas, anlas, antas, atlas, atman, atmas, lamas, malts, manas, manat, manta, nasal, natal, slant, smalt, talas, tamal.

-3 letters: aals, alan, alas, alma, alms, alts, amas, anal, anas, ansa, anta, ants, atma, lama, lams, last, lats, malt, mana, mans, mast, mats, salt, slam, slat, tala.

-5 letters: aa.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-l-m-n-s-t"
 

+1 letter: staminal, talesman, talisman.

 

+2 letters: atonalism, calamints, claimants, laminates, mantillas, plantsman, stableman, talismans, tantalums.

 

+3 letters: almandites, aluminates, atonalisms, dalmatians, lambasting, laminators, lanthanums, malathions, montadales, nameplates, naturalism, palmations, phantasmal, semantical, talismanic.

 

+4 letters: ambulations, animalistic, animalities, antimonials, antimusical, antirealism, calumniates, complaisant, craftsmanly, delaminates, flamboyants, glutaminase, laminations, laundromats, maculations, manipulates, martingales, maternalism, mediastinal, melanoblast, metanalyses, metanalysis, nationalism, naturalisms, ornamentals, parliaments, paternalism, rationalism, sacramental, seminatural, stalemating, statesmanly, summational, transdermal, transmittal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LAST MAN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 41 53 54      4D 41 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000001 01010011 01010100 00100000 01001101 01000001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#83 &#84 &#32 &#77 &#65 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 0053 0054      004D 0041 004E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

463553542473548

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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