lastling

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noun

Someone or something that is last.

Opposite
Scrabble 9

Meanings

nounlastling (plural lastlings)

plural lastlings

  1. Someone or something that is last.

    He, however, who would be a firstling, let him take care lest he also become a lastling!

    1909, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Oscar Levy, The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, page 357
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    Then I pray thee to take heart again, And say to them, O my beloved lastling: 'Give heed at least how beautiful I am.'

    1912, Dante Alighieri, The Convivio of Dante Alighieri, page 62

    The later worms, either the lastlings from the early brood or the product of subsequent broods, may remain in the apple when it is harvested, particularly in an apple picked before it is quite mature and from which the worm has not escaped.

    1922, Liberty Hyde Bailey, The Apple-tree, page 93

    Antonyms: firstling

    1. An endling (someone who is the last of their kind; something that is the last of its kind).

      Antonyms: firstling

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSomeone or something that is last.

Opposite

nounAn endling (someone who is the last of their kind; something that is the last of its kind).

Opposite
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APA

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Chicago

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