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English
Etymology
From Middle English lateste, from Old English latost, latest, lætest, superlative of læt, whence English late.
Pronunciation
Adjective
latest
- superlative form of late: most late
- (now rare, poetic) Last, final.
- Most recent.
- Here is the latest news on the accident.
- My latest album, which is being published next week, is better than her last one.
Derived terms
Translations
superlative of the adjective late; most late
Adverb
latest
- superlative form of late: most late
- At the latest.
- Complete the XYZ task latest by today 5:00PM.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:latest.
Noun
latest (plural latests)
- The most recent thing, particularly information or news.
- Have you heard the latest?
- What's the latest on the demonstrations in New York?
- Have you met Jane's latest? I hear he's a hunk.
1926, George Gaylord Simpson, edited by Léo F. Laporte, Simple curiosity; letters from George Gaylord Simpson ..., published 1987, page 29:And like other futile edifices of man these are inhabited for a brief space giving glory to the proprietor of the most unusual or striking and then left to melt back to dust and be forgotten, or worse yet, to become curiosities for generations with other "latests".
1979, Edward Digby Baltzell, Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia, page 54:It has often been said that Philadelphia is the city of firsts, Boston of bests, and New York of latests.
Anagrams
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Adjective
latest
- indefinite singular superlative degree of lat