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adjective

Late adj. (compar. later, or latter; superl. latest or last)

1.

Coming after the time when due, or after the usual or proper time; not early; slow; tardy; long delayed; as, a late spring.

2.

Far advanced toward the end or close; as, a late hour of the day; a late period of life.

3.

Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; recently deceased, departed, or gone out of office; as, the late bishop of London; the late administration.

4.

Not long past; happening not long ago; recent; as, the late rains; we have received late intelligence.

5.

Continuing or doing until an advanced hour of the night; as, late revels; a late watcher.

adverb

Late adv.

1.

After the usual or proper time, or the time appointed; after delay; as, he arrived late; opposed to early.

2.

Not long ago; lately.

3.

Far in the night, day, week, or other particular period; as, to lie abed late; to sit up late at night.

Of late, in time not long past, or near the present; lately; as, the practice is of late uncommon.

Too late, after the proper or available time; when the time or opportunity is past.

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"Late" Quotes from Famous Books

... who were as elderly and stolid and unadventurous now as Mr Pickering had been then. He would have resented the suggestion profoundly, but the truth of the matter was that Dudley Pickering, after a late start, had begun ...

— Uneasy Money • P.G. Wodehouse

... Ireland, and, amongst other places, to the quiet little village of Drumsna, which is in the province of Connaught, County Leitrim, about 72 miles W.N.W. of Dublin, on the mail-coach road to Sligo. I reached the little inn there in the morning by the said mail, my purpose being to leave it late in the evening by the day coach; and as my business was but of short duration, I was left, after an early dinner, to amuse myself. Now, in such a situation, to take a walk is all the brightest man can do, and the dullest ...

— The Macdermots of Ballycloran • Anthony Trollope

... other doctors to relieve them late in the evening. Things were somewhat quieter at GHQ as Doc reported the ...

— Badge of Infamy • Lester del Rey

... he put to no man's service. Harding hunted only for himself. And because he served his own pleasure more passionately than he served others', and was oftener seen with his bow than with hammer or oar, he was chiefly known as the Red Hunter. Often in the late of the year he would be away on the great hills of Bury and Bignor and Houghton and Rewell, with their beech-woods burning on their sides and in their hollows, and their rolling shoulders lifted out of those autumn fires to meet in freedom ...

— Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard • Eleanor Farjeon

... some kingdoms in alliance with Rome, were all in a disturbed state. He, therefore, disbanded many of Vitellius's soldiers, and punished others; and so far was he from granting any extraordinary favours to the sharers of his success, that it was late before he paid the gratuities due to them by law. That he might let slip no opportunity of reforming the discipline of the army, upon a young man's coming much perfumed to return him thanks (452) for having appointed him ...

— The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, Complete - To Which Are Added, His Lives Of The Grammarians, Rhetoricians, And Poets • C. Suetonius Tranquillus

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