last kiss
Goodbye before parting
A last kiss is a final kiss shared between people, typically carrying emotional weight because one or both parties know—or later realize—it was the end.
The phrase often appears in contexts of death, breakups, or departures: She gave her grandmother a last kiss before leaving the hospital.
In romantic contexts, it marks the definitive close of a relationship: Their last kiss was on the porch that November night.
The term has a bittersweet quality, suggesting both intimacy and finality.
- farewellLeave-taking expression
- goodbyeDeparting salutation
- final goodbyeConclusive parting statement
- partingAct of leaving another
- lipsMouth's outer edges
tenderness · bittersweet · bittersweet ending · ending · embrace · cheek · tears · departure · train station · longing · romance · heartbreak · memory · final · whisper · touch · lover · station
- kissespeck, smooch, snog, buss, smack
- tragic romanceRomeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, Wuthering Heights, doomed lovers, star-crossed
- deathbedfinal moments, final breath, dying wish, deathbed, passing
- endingsending, the end, finish, close, final