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 Translation for 'last night' from English to French
NOUN   the / [rare] a last night | last nights
hier soir {adv}last night [evening]
4 Words
l'avant-dernière nuit {adv}the night before last
Partial Matches
se poursuivreto last
alim.cuis.
se conserver [aliments périssables]
to last
ultime {adj} [appel, concession]last
se prolonger [maladie, symptôme]to last
s'étendre [durer]to last
durerto last
22
dernier {adj}last
24
en dernier {adv}last
mil.mus.
Last Post {m} [sonnerie aux morts réglementaire, en usage dans les armées du Commonwealth]
Last Post
in extremis {adj} [sauvetage, accord] [aussi : in extrémis]last-minute
finalement {adv}at last
arriver en queueto come last
nom {m} de famillelast name
enfin {adv}at last
Enfin !At last!
année {f} dernièrelast year
de dernière minute {adj}last-minute
mil.
honneurs {m.pl} funèbres
last honours [Br.]
le tout dernier {pron}the very last
avant-dernier {adj}next to last
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Usage Examples English
  • In his 12th novel, "Last Night in Twisted River", published in 2009, Irving's central character is a novelist with, as critic Boyd Tonkin puts it, "a career that teasingly follows Irving's own".
  • Families would have a special meal or supper on St Brigid's Eve to mark the last night of winter.
  • In the UK, the first verse is typically sung alone, even on official occasions, although the third verse is sometimes sung in addition on certain occasions such as during the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012 Summer Paralympics, and the 2022 Commonwealth Games and usually at the Last Night of the Proms.
  • On 8 September 2007, Carrickfergus was the Northern Irish host for the "Last Night at the Proms", featuring Alison Balsom, Alfie Boe, and Ulster conductor Kenneth Montgomery.
  • Journalist Eamonn O'Neill wrote the play "God Save Ireland Cried the Hero" about Collins' last night alive.

  • Coös County is the setting for the John Irving novel "Last Night in Twisted River", Twisted River being a logging settlement in the county.
  • He opined that Lerner and Loewe's score for "The Day Before Spring" the previous year was better than theirs for "Brigadoon", explaining that: "If my first emotion last night was admiration rather than sheer enjoyment, it was because the proceedings seemed to me more marked by taste and style than by emotional warmth in book and music, but there is no denying that the authors have matured as theatrical craftsmen".
  • The words were further modified to fit the original tune, and the result has since become a fixture at the Last Night of the Proms, and an English sporting anthem and general patriotic song.
  • Before meeting Dylan, Baez's topical songs were very few: "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream", "We Shall Overcome", and an assortment of Negro spirituals.
  • The forester's house in Ors where Owen spent his last night, Maison forestière de l'Ermitage, has been transformed by Turner Prize nominee Simon Patterson into an art installation and permanent memorial to Owen and his poetry, which opened to the public on 1 October 2011.

  • Much of one edition of the IFC program "Dinner for Five" was given over to a description of Demme's last night and fond reminiscences about his life, mostly by Denis Leary and the show's host Jon Favreau.
  • The area is the setting for the 2021 film "Last Night in Soho" by Edgar Wright.
  • is French for "Fat Tuesday", reflecting the practice of the last night of eating rich, fatty foods before the ritual Lenten sacrifices and fasting of the Lenten season.
  • It presents adaptations of the stories "The Veldt", "The Long Rain" and "The Last Night of the World".
  • That evening, a swarm of helicopters appears on the horizon, the story of last night's orgy having been in all the papers.

  • Her tour to San Francisco is mentioned (under the name Madame Chiang) in "Last Night at the Telegraph Club", a 2021 novel by Malinda Lo.
  • Kurt Cobain promoted the legacy of Lead Belly, and some modern rock audiences owe their familiarity with Lead Belly to Nirvana's performance of "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" (which Lead Belly called "In the Pines") on a televised concert later released as "MTV Unplugged in New York".
  • Under a new contract with RCA Victor, he recorded "Civilization"; "You Can’t Tell the Depth of the Well"; "Say it with a Slap"; "Valencia"; "My Flame Went Out Last Night"; "Thousand Islands"; "Mean To Me"; and "Tutti Tutti Pizzicato".
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