being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time; "late evening"; "late 18th century"; "a late movie"; "took a late flight"; "had a late breakfast"
Used in a Sentence
late
How to use late in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for late.
Editorial note
" You can't just bolt it on later.
Examples18
Definitions11
Parts of speech2
Quick take
being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time; "late evening"; "late 18th century"; "a late movie"; "took a late flight"; "had a late breakfast"
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of late gathered in one view.
after the expected or usual time; delayed; "a belated birthday card"; "I'm late for the plane"; "the train is late"; "tardy children are sent to the principal"; "always tardy in making dental appointments"
of the immediate past or just previous to the present time; "a late development"; "their late quarrel"; "his recent trip to Africa"; "in recent months"; "a recent issue of the journal"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for late.
adjective
being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time; "late evening"; "late 18th century"; "a late movie"; "took a late flight"; "had a late breakfast"
adjective
after the expected or usual time; delayed; "a belated birthday card"; "I'm late for the plane"; "the train is late"; "tardy children are sent to the principal"; "always tardy in making dental appointments"
adjective
of the immediate past or just previous to the present time; "a late development"; "their late quarrel"; "his recent trip to Africa"; "in recent months"; "a recent issue of the journal"
See also: recent
adjective
having died recently; "her late husband"
adjective
of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages; "Late Greek"
adjective
at or toward an end or late period or stage of development; "the late phase of feudalism"; "a later symptom of the disease"; "later medical science could have saved the child"
adjective
(used especially of persons) of the immediate past; "the former president"; "our late President is still very active"; "the previous occupant of the White House"
adverb
later than usual or than expected; "the train arrived late"; "we awoke late"; "the children came late to school"; "notice came so tardily that we almost missed the deadline"; "I belatedly wished her a happy birthday"
adverb
to an advanced time; "deep into the night"; "talked late into the evening"
See also: deep
adverb
at an advanced age or stage; "she married late"; "undertook the project late in her career"
adverb
in the recent past; "he was in Paris recently"; "lately the rules have been enforced"; "as late as yesterday she was fine"; "feeling better of late"; "the spelling was first affected, but latterly the meaning also"
Example sentences
" You can't just bolt it on later.
Often, rather, it gets delivered 6 months late.
I'll quote a master language teacher here, the late John DeFrancis.
We switched from CentOS to SL back when CentOS 6 was so late being released; couldn't be happier with it.
If you target it late stage, you'll prevent further transmission but the human could still die.
You don't like what other late 20s upper-class educated males like?
BofA was really late to the game in offering clients sub-prime mortgages and the like.
I gave him the results the next day late in the evening and he thanked me and drove off into the sunset.
* In recent years I've taken to building low-latency high scale systems.
Our chocolate milk was constantly taken by bullies.
[1]\nThe parallels are striking : Whatsapp is to messaging today what Hotmail was to messaging in the late '90s.
Their pay and benefits suck, although much less so lately due to local competition from Google and Facebook.
We can't keep launching products and pretending we'll turn them into magical beautiful extensible platforms later.
In that section of that book, I found this passage, "Fluency in reading can only be achieved by extensive practice on all the interrelated aspects of the reading process.
The strange part was two years later I got a call from the contractor, they were in a panic because the driver didn't work with the latest version of SCO and they had to "urgently deploy a lot of these things" into a undisclosed "middle eastern territory".
In 30 more years all the languages will change, all the tech will be different but the problems will be related to today's problems and the more you learn to stretch your mind and solve problems with many different approaches the more valuable you will be in the complex future that is coming at us every single day.
You will have a business mess because it will be very easy to conclude you did this maliciously, and you're now one Hacker News post away from having a customer run your name through the mud and for the next several months, 7 out of the top 10 results on any Google search for your company's name will be that post and related ones.
We become intimately familiar with his three-year-old daughter's escapades with Cheerios and love of Phineas & Ferb.- Judging from the number of sirens, Jake apparently lives in a bad part of town or is watching Blues Brothers in the background.- Lucy has apparently joined while sitting in a conference room, attending another meeting simultaneously.- Robert joins 15 minutes late and would like everything he missed to be recapped.- Mark absolutely will not let the meeting progress unless someone is recording.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use late in a sentence?
" You can't just bolt it on later.
What does late mean?
being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time; "late evening"; "late 18th century"; "a late movie"; "took a late flight"; "had a late breakfast"
What part of speech is late?
late is commonly used as adjective, adverb.