Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being at or closest to the end; last.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated at the very end; furthest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Farthest; remotest; at the very end.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
last in a series,furthest away
Etymologies
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Examples
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He came around and dropped smoothly and quickly onto the tundra, coming to a stop with a neat pivot 30 yards from the endmost tent.
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Yet know it was vastly otherwise which I have heard it by mmummy goods waif, as I, chiefly endmost hartyly aver, for
Finnegans Wake 2006
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The scientific manager suddenly stopped writing, and walked down the shed to the endmost of the dynamos, and began to examine the brushes.
The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006
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When we were back in our room again, with the table against the door, I took out the whetstone and sharpened the man-side of the blade, honing its edge until the endmost third, the part I would use, would divide a thread tossed into the air.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
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The scientific manager suddenly stopped writing, and walked down the shed to the endmost of the dynamos, and began to examine the brushes.
The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories Herbert George 1911
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The hat rolled, bounced, dipped and soared up the hill and just clear of the branches of the endmost pine.
Galusha the Magnificent Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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And a series of observations, made at the suggestion of Mr. Wace, convinced both watchers that, so far as this visionary world was concerned, the crystal into which they peered actually stood at the summit of the endmost mast on the terrace, and that on one occasion at least one of these inhabitants of this other world had looked into Mr. Cave's face while he was making these observations.
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The scientific manager suddenly stopped writing, and walked down the shed to the endmost of the dynamos, and began to examine the brushes.
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The scientific manager suddenly ceased his writing, walked down the shed to the endmost of the dynamos, and began to examine the brushes.
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On the east border of the garden was a row of poplars, and from the window I could see the naked branches of the endmost.
Sacred and Profane Love Arnold Bennett 1899
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