Meanings
plural lastlings
- 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 3572 more examples
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 62The 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 93Antonyms: firstling
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSomeone or something that is last.
nounAn endling (someone who is the last of their kind; something that is the last of its kind).
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