Dictionary
late
Meaning
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- Near the end of a period of time.
- Specifically, near the end of the day.
- Associated with the end of a period.
- Not arriving or occurring until after an expected time.
- Levied as a surcharge on a payment which has not arrived by a specified deadline.
- Not having had an expected menstrual period.
- 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.)
- Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; departed, or gone out of office.
- Recent — relative to the noun it modifies.
- Of a star or class of stars, cooler than the sun.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/leɪt/
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