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late
adjective
1. Beginning after or continuing past the usual or expected hour: a late breakfast; a late meeting.
2. Coming, occurring, or remaining after the correct, usual, or expected time; delayed: The bus is late. See Synonyms at tardy.
3. Contemporary; up-to-date: the latest fashion.
4. Dead, especially if only recently deceased: in memory of the late explorer.
5. Having begun or occurred just previous to the present time; recent: a late development.
adverb
1. After the expected, usual, or proper time: a train that arrived late; woke late and had to skip breakfast.
2. At or into an advanced period or stage: a project undertaken late in her career.
3. At or until an advanced hour: talked late into the evening.
4. Recently: As late as last week he was still in town.
5. After the usual or proper time.
idiom
1. Of late Recently; lately: was feeling better of late.
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