Signification

• Adj

  1. Near the end of a period of time.
  2. Specifically, near the end of the day.
  3. Associated with the end of a period.
  4. Not arriving or occurring until after an expected time.
  5. Levied as a surcharge on a payment which has not arrived by a specified deadline.
  6. Not having had an expected menstrual period.
  7. Deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person's actions while alive. (Generally must be preceded by a possessive or an article, commonly "the"; see usage notes. Can itself only precede the person's name, never follow it.)
  8. Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; departed, or gone out of office.
  9. Recent — relative to the noun it modifies.
  10. Of a star or class of stars, cooler than the sun.

• Noun
• Adv