lastborn

See also: last-born

English

Etymology

From last +‎ born.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lästʹ-bôrn', lăstʹ-bôrn', IPA^(key): /ˈlɑːstˌbɔː(ɹ)n/, /ˈlæstˌbɔː(ɹ)n/
  • (UK) [ˈlɑːstˌbɔːn]
  • (US) [ˈlæstˌbɔɚ̯n]
• 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:

     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

• (antonym(s) of “youngest child”): firstborn

Translations

youngest child of a family

Armenian: վերջինեկ (hy) (verǰinek) Azerbaijani: sonbeşik Bashkir: кинйә (kinyə) Bikol Central: kangudhan Chinese: Mandarin: 幼子 (zh) (yòu zǐ), 老幺 (zh) (lǎoyāo) Esperanto: lastenaskito Finnish: kuopus (fi), nuorimmainen, pahnanpohjimmainen (fi) French: dernier-né (fr) m, dernier-née f Greek: στερνοπαίδι (el) n (sternopaídi), στερνοπούλι (el) n (sternopoúli), αποσπόρι (el) n (apospóri), απογέννι (el) n (apogénni), Βενιαμίν (el) m (Veniamín), αποζούδι (el) n (apozoúdi) Indonesian: anak bungsu (id) Japanese: 末っ子 (ja) (suekko), 末子 (ja) (masshi) Kazakh: кенже (kenje) Korean: 막내 (ko) (mangnae) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: axirpişt Portuguese: caçula (pt) m or f, ultimogénito m, benjamim (pt) Spanish: ultimogénito, benjamín (es), cumiche m, xocoyote m, socoyote m, shocoyote m (Mexico), jocoyote m (Mexico) Swedish: minsting (sv) Tagalog: bunso Turkish: sonbeşik Vietnamese: út (vi), con út Yoruba: àbígbẹ̀yìn

youngest member

Finnish: kuopus (fi), nuorin (fi) Korean: 막내 (ko) (mangnae)

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

• (antonym(s) of “born last”): firstborn

Translations

born last in a family

Armenian: վերջինեկ (hy) (verǰinek) Bikol Central: nguhod (bcl) Finnish: nuorin (fi) German: letztgeboren Indonesian: bungsu (id) Kazakh: кенже (kenje) Malay: Jawi: بوڠسو Rumi: bongsu (ms) Portuguese: caçula (pt) Spanish: ultimogénito, postremogénito m Vietnamese: út (vi)

being younger than anyone else

Finnish: nuorin (fi)

See also

• middleborn