latest

adjective

1. 1

   archaicLast, final.

   Whiles the sad pang approching she does feele, / Brayes out her latest breath, and vp her eyes doth seele.

2. 2

   Most recent.

   Here is the latest news on the accident.

   My latest album, which is being published next week, is even better than my last one.

   It's the latest fashion, ma'am.

   Equally I can stand in a station like Lucerne in Switzerland, and watch with ill-concealed admiration the majestic entry of one of the latest Gotthard "Ae 6/6" electrics, packing 6,000 horsepower within its 60 ft. of length and 121 tons of weight, with its sleek dark green sides and handsome stainless steel bands and front wings.

3. 3

   Also a form of latesuperlative form of late: most late

adverb

1. 1

   At the latest.

   Complete the XYZ task latest by today 5:00PM.

2. 2

   Also a form of latesuperlative form of late: most late

noun

1. 1

   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.

   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".

Forms

plural

latests