Wiktionary
adv. An expression to start the last item of a list, emphasising that while it is listed last, it is just as important as the rest of the items.
WordNet
adv. in addition to all the foregoing; "last not least he plays the saxophone" [syn: last not least]
Usage examples of "last but not least".
This is Darrel Baker, the fearsome-looking fellow with the beard is Andrew French, and last but not least, Jack Wilden.
And last but not least, that one Siggi Dam - a telepath in Tzonov's employ, who might have been partly responsible for the escape of the alien from Perchorsk - seemed now to have disappeared off the face of the Earth.
Kosselow from the Eastern Bloc Secret Service, Mao-tsen of the Asiatic Defence Forces and last but not least Allan D.
And last but not least, he admitted, there was her sharp-edged, intriguing beauty.
And last but not least, he admitted, there was her sharp- edged, intriguing beauty.
And last but not least, bring Anna, so that she can learn from Marla and the others and become the musician she so wants to be.