Latest vs Eatest - What's the difference?
latest | eatest |
(late)
Last, final.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
Most recent.
At the latest.
The most recent thing, particularly information or news.
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* {{quote-book, title=Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia, page=54, books.google.com/books?isbn=156000830X,
author=(Edward Digby Baltzell), year=1979, passage=It has often been said that Philadelphia is the city of firsts, Boston of bests, and New York of latests .}}
As an adjective latest
is superlative of late.As an adverb latest
is superlative of late POS=adverb.As a noun latest
is the most recent thing, particularly information or news.As a verb eatest is
en-archaic second-person singular of eat.latest
English
Adjective
(-)- Whiles the sad pang approching she does feele, / Brayes out her latest breath, and vp her eyes doth seele.
- Here is the latest news on the accident.
Adverb
(head)- Complete the XYZ task latest by today 5:00PM.
Noun
(en noun)- 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.