last words meaning
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- Last words or final words are a person's final articulated words said prior to death or as death approaches.
- Quotations of last words may not be the words spoken immediately before death, as these tend to reflect the mode of death. Last words may not be written down and accurately recorded, and they may not be quoted accurately for a variety of reasons.
- Famous last words include both the literal sense such as the sayings of Jesus on the cross, "Et tu, Brute?" from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, and Oscar Wilde's "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death.
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this idiom "last words" is a noun, more specifically, a noun form.