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单词 lastborn
释义

lastborn

See also: last-born

English

Etymology

last + born

Pronunciation

  • enPR: lästʹ-bôrn', lăstʹ-bôrn', IPA(key): /ˈlɑːst.ˌbɔː(ɹ)n/, /ˈlæst.ˌbɔː(ɹ)n/
    • (UK) [ˈlɑːst.ˌbɔːn]
    • (US) [ˈlæst.ˌbɔɚ̯n]
  • Hyphenation: last‧born
  • Rhymes: -ɑːstbɔː(ɹ)n, -æstbɔː(ɹ)n

Noun

lastborn (plural lastborns)

  1. The youngest child of a family.
    • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:
      It took me back across the dim gulf of ages to some happy home in dead Imperial Kôr, where this winsome lady girt about with beauty had lived and died, and dying taken her last-born with her to the tomb.
  2. (figuratively) The youngest member of any company or organization.

Synonyms

  • baby of the family

Antonyms

  • (youngest child): firstborn

Translations

Adjective

lastborn (not comparable)

  1. Born last in a family; youngest in a the family.
  2. (figuratively) Younger than anyone else in a group.

Antonyms

  • (born last): firstborn

Translations

See also

  • middleborn
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