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say it: LAY-tuhst
latest is an adjective and noun meaning "up to the immediate present; most recent or most up-to-date". It is pronounced /ˈleɪtəst/ — LAY-tuhst. It carries 3 recorded senses.
up to the immediate present; most recent or most up-to-date
“the news is up-to-the-minute”
“the very latest scientific discoveries”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for latest come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.