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/ˈleɪ.tɪst/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjsuperlative form of late: most late
adjLast, final.
Sentence Examples
You must be back on Sunday at the latest.
We have not kept pace with the latest research.
This is the latest in robot technology.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She read the ____ news about the dangerous storm on her phone this morning.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Have you seen the ____ news about the space mission that was successfully launched into orbit earlier today?
Word Origin & History
From Middle English lateste, from Old English latost, latest, lætest, superlative of læt, whence English late. Doublet of last.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She read the ____ news about the dangerous storm on her phone this morning.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Have you seen the ____ news about the space mission that was successfully launched into orbit earlier today?