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Late   /leɪt/   Listen
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.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Late" Quotes from Famous Books



... interpretation into the Bible, and turn it loose, let them either give bonds for its behavior, or else stand and draw in self-defence, "lest it turn again and rend" them. If they endorse for it at one point, they must stand sponsors all around the circle. It will be too late to cry for quarter when they find its stroke clearing the whole table, and tilting them among the sweepings beneath. The Bible abounds with such expressions as the following: "This (bread) is my body;" "this (wine) is my ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society
... short time all returned quietly to their bartering. It seemed that the Stacy Islanders wished to keep all the bartering to themselves. They did not wish the rest to obtain hoop-iron or any other foreign wealth. They are at feud with one party on the mainland, and I suppose in their late contests have been victorious, for they told us with great exultation that they had lately killed and eaten ten of their ...
— Adventures in New Guinea • James Chalmers
... therefore, what we call the inorganic world must be regarded as up to a certain point living, and instinct, within certain limits, with consciousness, volition, and power of concerted action. It is only of late, however, that I have come ...
— Unconscious Memory • Samuel Butler
... Bessie approached, "do run and get the tea ready—there's a good girl. I shan't be through yet for half an hour, for I've the calves to see to; and your father and the boys 'll be in from watering the horses, and if we don't get tea soon they'll be late for church." ...
— Lucy Raymond - Or, The Children's Watchword • Agnes Maule Machar
... have arisen, two alone, Who worthily support his ancient throne: Clergy and knights, who fearless stand, Bulwarks 'gainst every storm, and they Take church and state as their appropriate pay. Through lawless men, the vulgar herd To opposition have of late been stirred; The heretics these are, the wizards, who The city ruin and the country too. With thy bold jests, to this high sphere, Such miscreants wilt smuggle in; Hearts reprobate to you are dear; They to the ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke


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