later
- adjective
- /ˈleɪtər/
:
posterior
- Now many of you know that Milton in his later years was blind.
I'm pretty sure I'm in the later category, Chuck.
- I'm pretty sure I'm in the later category, Chuck.
- That's the the later part to this.
- We can go into that later world spirit.
Examples
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But then years later, I left the team.
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And two years later he wrote a second paper.
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Four years later, it was just as bad.
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And then years later their kids got married.
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Like we can do this all these years later, let's see what happens.
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Just four years later came the Xbox Two.
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And as we find out later, Amber is a newcomer.
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My point is all these years later, they can't recruit me.
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Needless to say, yeah, nine months later he refinanced.
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Many years later, she finally visited the place where she grew up.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Near the end of a period or stage
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4.4
Happening after something else in time
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6.1
Happening later in time after something else
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
95
1.0
A casual goodbye said when leaving someone and expecting to meet again
3
8.4
Act quickly without thinking or checking facts
- Informal
A humorous way to say someone is bisexual now but may become gay later
How Late
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word later comes from the older word late, which once meant 'slow' or 'after'. So later originally meant 'more late', and today it describes something that happens after something else.