late
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: later
form: latest
Etymology: From Middle English late, lat, from Old English læt (“slow; slack, lax, negligent; late”), from Proto-West Germanic *lat, from Proto-Germanic *lataz (“slow, lazy”). By surface analysis, deverbal from let.
Cognates
Cognate with Yola laate (“late”), North Frisian leed, leet, lääs (“late”), Saterland Frisian leet (“late”), Dutch, German Low German laat (“late, tardy”), Danish lad (“languid, lazy, indolent”), Faroese, Icelandic latur (“lazy”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish lat (“lazy”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐍄𐍃 (lats, “lazy, slothful”).
Senses: examples: text: We drove as fast as we could, but we still arrived late.
glosses: After a deadline has passed, past a designated time.
examples: text: Colonel Easterwood, late of the 34th Carbines, was a guest at the dinner party.
text: The Hendersons will all be there / Late of Pablo Fanque's Fair / What a scene!
text: Linda Smith, late of 13 Oxford Street.
glosses: Formerly, especially in the context of service in a military unit.
examples: text: He ſhall doe this, or elſe I doe recant / The pardon that I late pronounced heere.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 181, column 1:
text: Tears of the widower, when he sees
⁠A late-lost form that sleep reveals,
⁠And moves his doubtful arms, and feels
Her place is empty, fall like these; […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 20:
glosses: Not long ago; just now, recently.
Synonyms: sense: past a designated time
word: belatedly
word: belatedly
sense: formerly
word: erenow
word: formerly
sense: not long ago
word: freshly
word: recently
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from late (all senses)
word: a day late and a dollar short
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word: alate
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word: as of late
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word: belate
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word: be late
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word: better late than never
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word: better to be late than be dead on time
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word: casually late
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word: day late, dollar short
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word: early and late
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word: fashionably late
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word: get late
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word: it's never too late to mend
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word: it's too late for sorry
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word: keep someone up late
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word: late antique
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word: late antiquity
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word: late binding
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word: late blight
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word: late bloomer
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word: late-blooming
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word: late-bound
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word: late-breaking
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word: late capitalism
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word: late capitalist
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word: late-capitalist
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word: latecomer
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word: latecoming
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word: lated
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word: late effect
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word: late fee
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word: late innings
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word: late in the day
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word: late in the game
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word: lateish
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word: late lamented
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word: lately
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word: late model
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word: late modern
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word: late modernity
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word: lateness
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word: late night
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word: late-night
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word: late on
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word: lateover
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word: late pass
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word: late position
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word: later
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word: late riser
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word: lateshit
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word: latesome
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word: late-stage capitalism
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word: late stage capitalism
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word: late tackle
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word: late-term
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word: late-to-bedder
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word: late to the ball
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word: late to the game
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word: late to the party
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word: late-type star
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word: late unpleasantness
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word: late-wake
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word: lateward
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word: latewood
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word: latish
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word: latred
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word: nonlate
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word: of late
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word: overlate
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word: run late
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word: sooner or later
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word: sorry I'm late
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word: stay up late
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word: too late
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word: two thousand and late
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word: Walklate
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word: you'll be late for your own funeral