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# lastly

«lastly» in Mova's school dictionary: **at the end, after everything else; it introduces the last…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

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

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lastly/#x1)
- Lastly, there came the two sons of the sick man. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lastly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lastly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.