{
  "id": "last.order",
  "term": "last",
  "sense": "order",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the thing that comes after every other in a list",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "list.ordered",
      "order.arrangement",
      "come.arrive",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "the ordered list positions elements along a temporal dimension, and the arrival of the final element marks the end of that sequence",
    "novel_properties": [
      "final position",
      "temporal endpoint",
      "sequential culmination"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The final episode of the TV series 'The Sopranos' aired on June 10, 2007, closing its narrative sequence.",
      "domain": "media"
    },
    {
      "text": "In the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Georgia certified its vote count after all other states, making it the last.",
      "domain": "politics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 2 probe, launched in 1977, was the last human-made object to visit Neptune, in 1989.",
      "domain": "spaceflight"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "first.order",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "christmas.holiday",
    "december.date",
    "final.order",
    "sunday.day"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "last",
    "lasted",
    "lasting",
    "lasts"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'come.arrive' and 'time.dimension' to components as they are foundational to the notion of 'coming after' in a sequence. Definition remains accurate and concise."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-last.order"
}