latest

Etymology

From Middle English lateste, from Old English latost, latest, lætest, superlative of læt, whence English late.

adj

1. superlative form of late: most late
2. (now rare, poetic) Last, final.
3. 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.

adv

1. superlative form of late: most late
2. At the latest.
   Complete the XYZ task latest by today 5:00PM.

noun

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". 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