at last

English

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

at last

1. (idiomatic) After a long time; eventually.

   Now that the dog has stopped barking, perhaps we can at last get some rest.

   After three hundred years had passed, at last the vampire's soul was free.

2. (idiomatic) In the end; finally; ultimately.

   After all their troubles, at last they lived happily ever after.

   After exhausting all possibilities, Holmes was at last satisfied the problem was unsolvable.

   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:

     Upon balancing the account, the profit at last will hardly countervail the inconveniences that go along with it.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:

     No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or […] . And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.

Synonyms

• (after a long time): in due course, sooner or later; see also Thesaurus:eventually
• (in the end): lastly, ultimately; see also Thesaurus:finally

Translations

after a long time; eventually

• Arabic: أَخِيرًا (ʔaḵīran)
• Armenian: վերջապես (hy) (verǰapes)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 終於／终于 (zh) (zhōngyú)

• Czech: konečně (cs)
• Dutch: eindelijk (nl)
• Esperanto: finfine
• Finnish: lopulta (fi), vihdoin (fi)
• French: enfin (fr)
• Georgian: ბოლოს და ბოლოს (bolos da bolos), საბოლოოდ (sabolood), როგორც იქნა (rogorc ikna)
• German: endlich (de)
• Greek: επιτέλους (el) (epitélous)
• Hungarian: végre (hu), végre-valahára (hu)
• Interlingua: finalmente
• Irish: faoi dheireadh
• Italian: finalmente (it)
• Japanese: 遂に (ja) (ついに, tsui ni), 等々 (ja) (とうとう, tōtō), やっと (ja) (やっと, yatto)
• Latin: dēmum (la), tandem (la)
• Malay: akhirnya (ms)
• Malayalam: ഒടുവിൽ (ml) (oṭuvil)
• Navajo: hónáásiiʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: endelig (no)

• Old English: æt nīehstan
• Polish: wreszcie (pl), nareszcie (pl), w końcu (pl)
• Portuguese: finalmente (pt)
• Russian: наконе́ц (ru) (nakonéc), наконе́ц-то (ru) (nakonéc-to) (with exasperation)
• Scottish Gaelic: mu dheireadh, fa dheireadh, bho dheireadh
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: на̏јзад

  Roman: nȁjzad (sh)

• Spanish: por fin (es), al fin
• Swedish: slutligen (sv), äntligen (sv) (about outcome one has looked forward to)
• Tagalog: sa wakas
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tocharian B: akek
• Ukrainian: нарешті (uk) (narešti)
• Urdu: بِالْآخِر (bil-āxir)
• Welsh: o'r diwedd (cy)

in the end; finally; ultimately

• Arabic: أَخِيرًا (ʔaḵīran)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 最終／最终 (zh) (zuìzhōng), 最後／最后 (zh) (zuìhòu)

• Comanche: haya kwasikʉ
• Czech: nakonec (cs)
• Dalmatian: fenalmiant
• Dutch: uiteindelijk (nl)
• Esperanto: fine (eo)
• Finnish: lopulta (fi)
• French: à la fin (fr), au bout du compte (fr), finalement (fr)
• Georgian: საბოლოოდ (sabolood), ბოლოს (bolos)
• German: schließlich (de)
• Hindi: आख़िर (āxir)
• Hungarian: végül (hu)
• Interlingua: finalmente
• Irish: faoi dheireadh, i ndeireadh na dála
• Japanese: 終わりに (ja) (owari ni), 最終的に (ja) (saishūteki ni), 最後に (ja) (saigo ni)
• Latin: tandem (la)
• Malayalam: ഒടുവിൽ (ml) (oṭuvil)
• Old English: æt nīehstan
• Old Norse: loks
• Plautdietsch: entlich
• Portuguese: por fim
• Russian: напосле́док (ru) (naposlédok), наконе́ц (ru) (nakonéc), в конце концов (ru) (v konce koncov)
• Serbo-Croatian: napokon (sh)
• Spanish: al fin, por fin (es), al cabo
• Swedish: till slut (sv), slutligen (sv)
• Tagalog: sa wakas
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: sonunda (tr), nihayet (tr)
• Urdu: آخر (ur) (āxir), بِالْآخِر (bil-āxir)
• Welsh: yn olaf

See also

• about time
• at long last

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