later
US: /ˈɫeɪtɝ/
UK: /lˈeɪtɐ/
UK: /lˈeɪtɐ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
later
- chậm hơn
Advanced English dictionary
adverb, adjective
+ adverb
1 at a time in the future; after the time you are talking about: See you later. + I met her again three years later. + His father died later that year. + We're going to Rome later in the year. + She later became a doctor.
Antonym: EARLIER
2 (Later!) (spoken) a way of saying goodbye, used by young people: Later, guys!
Idioms: later on (informal) at a time in the future; after the time you are talking about: I'm going out later on. + Much later on, she realized what he had meant.
not / no later than ... by a particular time and not after it: Entries must arrive no later than 12 June.
+ adjective [only before noun]
1 coming after sth else or at a time in the future: This is discussed in more detail in a later chapter. + The match has been postponed to a later date.
2 near the end of a period of time, life, etc: the later part of the seventeenth century + She found happiness in her later years.
Antonym: EARLIER
Idioms see SOON
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 tardy, delayed, overdue, behindhand, dilatory, unpunctual; belated, US past due:
He was even late for his own wedding. Better late than never. Your mortgage payment is late again
2 recent, last, new, fresh, current, up to date:
Have you got a copy of a late edition of today's newspaper?
3 deceased, departed, dead; former, past, ex-, recent, previous, preceding, old (See also 5., below.):
Here is a song by the late, great Bing Crosby. He has a meeting with Lord Pamby, late chairman of United Oxidation
4 of late. See 5., below.
adv.
5 recently, lately, previously, formerly, once, heretofore, in recent or former time(s), of late, latterly (See also 3., above.):
They are dining tonight with Sir Keith, late of Scotland Yard.
6 till or at an advanced hour or time:
I was up late last night. She married late.
7 tardily, unpunctually, belatedly:
We arrived too late for the first act.
8 recently, lately:
As late as a week ago they were still holding the job open for her.
Concise English dictionary
'leɪtə(r)
adj.
+coming at a subsequent time or stage
+at or toward an end or late period or stage of development
adv.
+happening at a time subsequent to a reference time
+at some eventual time in the future
+comparative of the adverb `late'
later|latestleɪt
adj.
+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
adv.
+later than usual or than expected
+to an advanced time
+at an advanced age or stage
+in the recent past
