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lastlings

lastlings is the plural of lastling.

Meaning of lastling

Noun

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

Questions about lastlings

What is lastlings the plural of?
Lastlings is the plural of lastling.

Words near lastlings in the dictionary

  1. Lastingham
  2. lastingly
  3. lastingness
  4. lastings
  5. lastling
  6. lastlings
  7. lastly
  8. lastmaker
  9. lastmakers
  10. lastmaking
  11. lastminute.com

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