Definition of Late

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Definition of Late

Late

Coming after the time when due, or after the usual or proper time; not early; slow; tardy; long delayed; as, a late spring.

Far advanced toward the end or close; as, a late hour of the day; a late period of life.

Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; lately deceased, departed, or gone out of office; as, the late bishop of London; the late administration.

Not long past; happening not long ago; recent; as, the late rains; we have received late intelligence.

Continuing or doing until an advanced hour of the night; as, late revels; a late watcher.

After the usual or proper time, or the time appointed; after delay; as, he arrived late; -- opposed to early.

Not long ago; lately.

Far in the night, day, week, or other particular period; as, to lie abed late; to sit up late at night.

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Late Quotations

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
Marilyn Monroe

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
Mark Twain

It gets late early out there.
Yogi Berra

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
George Carlin

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin

He that rises late must trot all day.
Benjamin Franklin

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
Bill Gates

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
Steven Wright

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
Ogden Nash

Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
Ogden Nash

Late Translations

late in Afrikaans is laat
late in Danish is sen, sent
late in Dutch is laat, vergevorderd
late in Latin is sero, tardus
late in Portuguese is tarde
late in Spanish is tarde
late in Swedish is sen

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