lastbornとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: lästʹ-bôrn', lăstʹ-bôrn', IPA: /ˈlɑːstˌbɔː(ɹ)n/, /ˈlæstˌbɔː(ɹ)n/
  • (英国発音) [ˈlɑːstˌbɔːn]
  • (米国発音) [ˈlæstˌbɔɚ̯n]
• ハイフネーション: last‧born
• 韻: -ɑːstbɔː(ɹ)n, -æstbɔː(ɹ)n

名詞

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.

同意語

• baby of the family

反意語

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

形容詞

lastborn (not comparable)

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

反意語

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

参考

• middleborn