noun
- The finest or most superior quality of its kind.
- usage: "the ultimate in luxury"
adjective
- Furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme.
- usage: "the ultimate achievement"; "the ultimate question"; "man's ultimate destiny"; "the ultimate insult"; "one's ultimate goal in life"
- Being the last or concluding element of a series.
- usage: "the ultimate sonata of that opus"; "a distinction between the verb and noun senses of `conflict' is that in the verb the stress is on the ultimate (or last) syllable"
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