Late is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LATE in dictionary:

VERB:
• 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.
NOUN:
• the most recent news or fashion
ADVERB:
• far on in time; towards the end of a period
• at or until a time far on in the day or night
• at a time in the near future; soon or afterwards
• formerly but not now living or working in a specified place or institution
• later than usual or than expected
• to an advanced time
• at an advanced age or stage
• in the recent past
• after the expected, proper, or usual time
ADJECTIVE:
• coming after the expected time
• doing something or taking place after the expected, proper, or usual time
• belonging or taking place far on in a particular period
• denoting or belonging to the advanced stage of a historical period or cultural movement
• far on in the day or night
• flowering or ripening towards the end of the season
• (of a specified person) no longer alive
• no longer having the specified status; former
• of most recent date
• after the normal or expected time
• 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.
• being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time
• after the expected or usual time; delayed
• of the immediate past or just previous to the present time
• having died recently
• of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages
• at or toward an end or late period or stage of development
• (used especially of persons) of the immediate past
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• coming or occurring after the expected time

Words related to LATE

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Words that contain LATE

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How to use LATE in a sentence

• We must therefore look upon it as an established fact, that the migration took place at the late period mentioned by Polybius and Diodorus.
• This brother had brought news which, too late, vindicated the memory of Wilhelm.
• The foundation of moral training must be laid in infancy, it cannot be begun too soon, and is almost always commenced too late.
• It was too late to visit the temples today, and I therefore waited till the next morning.
• For years afterwards he was liable to fainting-fits, had a wretched digestion, and was easily upset by hot rooms, late hours, and bad air.
• He was then leaning on an elbow, talking to Wilson, and except his pallor, and strong stomach-pains, there was now hardly a trace of his late approach to death.
• I have a fearful foreboding that the haughty, stern looking stranger who has been here so much of late, has something to do with it.
• He could eat like that, when he stood committed to a terrible thing! It was not until late in the day that it began to dawn on her how she was responsible.
• It is often sown too late to become established before winter sets in.
• It is even a matter of grave question if the race who built the Stone Circles was not entirely different to the late Celtic inhabitants of the plain.
• A change so important and so similar to that to which of late years public opinion has again leaned, will justify a few remarks on its causes, before I describe its effects.
• In specimens that show a very large proportion of late wood it may be noticeably more porous and weigh considerably less than the late wood in pieces that contain but little.
• It had been more than an hour now since they had left their late prison and Hal was beginning to hope their absence would not be noticed before morning.
• After a time they begin summoning the spirits, and from then until late evening the guests divide their time between the mediums and the liquor jars.
• The father of the late lamented General Wadsworth used to relate that he met him once in the woods of Western New York in a sad plight.
• Of late, they had met rarely, and neither of the men was a good correspondent.
• Bowlin, the late commissioner of the United States to that country.
• As he settled down to his long, hard ride he reflected that it was not yet noon, and that father would not set out until late in the day.
• All wealth in a true democracy would be the fruit of personal exertion and would come too late to be nobly enjoyed or to teach the art of liberal living.
• Great was the grief of the king and of all the French, when they found that they had come too late to save even a single life.
• The accommodation train from New York to Boston was late that day.
• They talked together till late at night, and after they had committed themselves to their Lord for protection, they went to bed.
• As a consequence he slept late and accomplished hardly any work.

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