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# lastly

adverb

«lastly» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Lastly means at the end, after everything else; it introduces the last thing in a list. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lastly/#m1)

### In the lessons

in stories it marks the last event or person in a sequence, as in «Lastly, there came …»; in speech it introduces the final point

### Examples

- First we ate, then we sang, and lastly we went home. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lastly/#x1)
- Lastly, there came the two sons of the sick man. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lastly/#x2)
- Lastly he said, 'Well, Jack my Hedgehog, and what shall I bring you?' [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lastly/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths; it only names the last item of a list and does not change a count.

## In Jewish tradition

in stories it marks the last event or person in a sequence, as in «Lastly, there came …»; in speech it introduces the final point

### Examples

- Air, Vayu ; then Water, Apas, which condenses into solid elementary Earth, Prithivi ; and lastly from the Water He formed Fire. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lastly/#x1)
- must not be confused with Zain, Z ; and lastly Qoph, Q is very often replaced by K, which is hardly defensible as there is a true K in addition. ' 44. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lastly/#x2)

### Note

nothing for maths; it only names the last item of a list and does not change a count.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «lastly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lastly/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«lastly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lastly.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «lastly» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lastly/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«lastly» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/lastly.html) on Mova free.