last-named

English

Etymology 1

From last +‎ named.

Alternative forms

• last named

Adjective

last-named (not comparable)

1. The last person or thing named, e.g. in the preceding text.
   • 1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Salute to the "Claude Hamiltons" & "Directors"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 115:

     James Holden had been succeeded in 1907 by his son Stephen Dewar Holden and the latter in his turn in 1912 by A. J. Hill. The last-named introduced a revolutionary change in 1922 by rebuilding No. 1805 with a new high-pitched boiler [...].

Related terms

• last-mentioned

References

• “last-named”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Etymology 2

From last-name +‎ -ed.

Verb

last-named

1. simple past and past participle of last-name

Anagrams

• Stadelman