单词 | youngest-born |
释义 | > as lemmasyoungest-born youngest-born adj. and n. (a) adj. last-born, youngest; (b) n. a youngest child or sibling; cf. eldest-born n. at eldest adj. Compounds; also in extended use. ΘΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > next-born, last-born, etc. middlec1275 youngest-borna1325 next-born?a1400 last-born1609 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2160 His x sunes iacob for-ðan Sente in-to egipt... He bilef at hom ðe was gungest boren. 1596 G. Markham Poem of Poems ii. sig. B8v Now with their [sc. the vines'] smallest grapes, times yongest borne Clustred in bunches like a countlesse broode. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 371 France, that dowerles Tooke our yongest borne . View more context for this quotation 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice III. viii. iii. 35 Our youngest-born affection is our darling and our idol. 1996 Times (Nexis) 26 Aug. The American philosopher and founding father Benjamin Franklin..was a seventh-generation youngest-born. 2005 A. Daniels Love Uncovered xii. 227 Identical brandy-colored eyes brimmed with tenderness as she spoke to her youngest-born child. < as lemmas |
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