Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - latest

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. Latest is the superlative of late. 2. You use latest to describe something that is the most recent thing of its kind. ...her latest book... Latest reports say another five people have been killed... ADJ: oft v-link ADJ in/of n 3. You can use latest to describe something that is very new and modern and is better than older things of a similar kind. Crooks are using the latest laser photocopiers to produce millions of fake banknotes... I got to drive the latest model... Computers have always represented the latest in technology. ADJ: oft v-link ADJ in/of n 4. see also late 5. You use at the latest in order to indicate that something must happen at or before a particular time and not after that time. She should be back by ten o’clock at the latest. PHRASE: amount PHR c darkgreen]emphasis