Late

Noun

 * 1)  Manner; behaviour; outward appearance or aspect.
 * 2)  A sound; voice.
 * Than have we liking to lithe the lates of the foules. ― King Alexander.

Adjective

 * 1) Near the end of a period of time.
 * 2) * It was late in the evening when we finally arrived.
 * 3) Specifically, near the end of the day.
 * 4) * It was getting late and I was tired.
 * 5) not used comparatively Associated with the end of a period.
 * 6) * Late Latin is less fully inflected than classical Latin.
 * 7) Not arriving until after an expected time.
 * 8) * Even though we drove as fast as we could, we were still late.
 * 9) * Panos was so late that he arrived at the meeting after Antonio, who had the valid excuse of being in hospital - in intensive care - for most of the night.
 * 10)  Deceased, dead:  (Often used with the:; see usage notes.)
 * 11) * Her late husband had left her well provided for.
 * 12) * The piece was composed by the late Igor Stravinsky.
 * 13) Recent -- relative to the noun it modifies.
 * 1914 Robert Frost, North of Boston, "A Hundred Collars":
 * Lancaster bore him -- such a little town, / Such a great man. It doesn't see him often / Of late years, though he keeps the old homestead / And sends the children down there with their mother [...]

Noun

 * 1)  A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place late in the day or at night.
 * 2) * 2007, Paul W Browning, The Good Guys Wear Blue
 * At about 11 pm one night in Corporation Street my watch were on van patrol and Yellow Watch were on lates as usual.

Adverb

 * 1) After a deadline has passed, past a designated time.
 * We drove as fast as we could, but we still arrived late.

Derived terms

 * a day late and a dollar short
 * as of late
 * better late than never
 * day late, dollar short
 * late night
 * latecomer
 * lately
 * later
 * sooner or later

Adverbs for Late
extremely; horribly; preposterously; hideously; terrifyingly; alarmingly; significantly; dreadfully; intentionally; deliberately; carelessly;   unfortunately;    disastrously; calamitously; nonchalantly; lazily; inconsiderately; strangely; curiously; understandably; habitually; inexcusably; unpardonably; inexplicably; ungraciously; excusably; justifiably; unavoidably; apologetically; incredibly; vexatiously; unluckily; inordinately; terribly; uncommonly.

Thesaurus
after time, ahead of time, anachronistic, ancient, antedated, arrested, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at rest, back, backward, beforehand, behind, behind time, behindhand, belated, belatedly, bereft of life, blocked, breathless, bygone, called home, carrion, checked, cold, croaked, current, dated, dead, dead and gone, death-struck, deceased, deep into, defunct, delayed, delayed-action, demised, departed, departed this life, destitute of life, detained, dilatory, done for, early, erstwhile, exanimate, extinct, fallen, far on, finished, food for worms, fore, foredated, former, formerly, fresh, gone, gone to glory, gone west, held up, heretofore, hung up, ill-considered, ill-seasoned, ill-timed, immemorial, impeded, improper, in a bind, in abeyance, inanimate, inappropriate, inauspicious, inconvenient, inexpedient, infelicitous, inopportune, intempestive, intrusive, irrelevant, jammed, last, late lamented, lately, later, latish, latter, latterly, launched into eternity, lifeless, mal a propos, malapropos, martyred, metachronistic, misdated, mistimed, moratory, never on time, new, newly come, no more, none too soon, obstructed, of late, of yesterday, off base, old, olden, once, onetime, out of date, out of line, out of phase, out of season, out of time, overdue, parachronistic, passed on, past, past due, postdated, preceding, prehistoric, premature, previous, previously, primeval, primitive, prior, prochronistic, pushing up daisies, quondam, recent, recently, released, reposing, resting easy, retarded, sainted, set back, sleeping, slow, slowed down, smitten with death, sometime, still, stillborn, stopped, taken away, taken off, tardily, tardy, then, too late, too soon, unbefitting, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unfortunate, unhandy, unhappy, unlucky, unpropitious, unpunctual, unready, unripe, unseasonable, unsuitable, untimely, untoward, whilom, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions, wrong

Etymology 1
From, from lát: (plural læti:)undefined:, from , from. Cognate with lat:,  lætan:. More at.

Etymology 2
From late:, from  læt:. Cognate with Dutch: laat

Etymology 3
From late:

Adjective

 * Afrikaans: laat
 * Arabic: متأخر
 * Armenian: ուշ (uš)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, késői, kései
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: tarde


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: tardus, tarda, tardum
 * Latvian: vēls
 * Lithuanian: vėlus, vėlyvas
 * Lojban:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: pozen, pozna , pozno
 * Spanish:


 * Armenian: ուշ (uš)
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:


 * Icelandic:
 * Latin: tardus, tarda, tardum
 * Polish: późny, późna, późne
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: pozen, pozna , pozno


 * Afrikaans: laat
 * Armenian: ուշ (uš)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: myöhäinen, myöhäis-
 * German:


 * Hungarian:
 * Latin: tardus, tarda, tardum
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: pozen, pozna , pozno


 * Afrikaans: laat
 * American Sign Language:
 * Armenian: ուշ (uš)
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Old French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Latin: tardatus, tardata, tardatum, tardatum, tardatum
 * Lojban:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene: pozen, pozna , pozno
 * Spanish:
 * Volapük: latik


 * Afrikaans: oorlede
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Hungarian: néhai
 * Icelandic:
 * Latin: abortus
 * Latvian: nelaiķis
 * Lithuanian: velionis


 * Polish: zmarły, świętej pamięci
 * Portuguese: falecido
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: покојан
 * Roman: pokojan
 * Spanish: difunto
 * Turkish: rahmetli

Adverb

 * Afrikaans: laat
 * Arabic: متأخر
 * Basque: berandu
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: tard
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 晚, 遲, 迟, 遲到, 迟到
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Old French:
 * German:
 * Hindi: देर
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: tarda
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 遅刻, 遅い
 * Korean: 늦다, 지각하다
 * Kurdish: derneg, gîro, texîr,
 * Latin: tarde
 * Latvian: vēlu
 * Lithuanian: vėlai
 * Lower Sorbian: pózdźe
 * Old Norse:
 * Persian: دیر
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: ఆలస్యంగా (aalasyamgaa)
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: دیر

Anagrams

 * et al.
 * ETLA
 * leat
 * tael
 * tale
 * teal
 * tela

Adjective
late


 * 1) Alternate form of laat.

Adverb

 * 1) broadly, widely
 * 2) extensively
 * 3) far and wide, everywhere
 * 4) lavishly, to excess

Related terms

 * lātus

Adverb
late


 * 1) late

Etymology
Adverbial form of læt