latest

1. superlativesuperlative form of late: most late
2. archaicpoeticLast, final.

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

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

3. Most recent.

   It's the latest fashion, ma'am.

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   Here is the latest news on the accident.

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

   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.

   1955 April, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 261

   Synonyms: du jour

1. superlativesuperlative form of late: most late
2. At the latest.

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

plural latests

1. The most recent thing, particularly information or news.

   Have you heard the latest?

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   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".

   1926, George Gaylord Simpson, edited by Léo F. Laporte, Simple curiosity; letters from George Gaylord Simpson ..., published 1987, page 29

   It has often been said that Philadelphia is the city of firsts, Boston of bests, and New York of latests.

   1979, Edward Digby Baltzell, Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia, page 54