later on
366
1.0
- phrasal verb
:
más tarde
- I'll be back at the motel, later on.
- years later on
- three weeks later on
- discuss later on
Now she talks about this a little bit later on as well.
- Now she talks about this a little bit later on as well.
- And and then later on I, I picked up my father's.
- I was very curious later on in the war in Bakmut.
- Old skills that later on I came to use to great effect.
- And later on he realizes I need help.
- I might give a second shot and read the first chapter later on this week.
Examples
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We'll talk about that later on in a bit.
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Okay, we'll see you later on tomorrow then.
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So I agreed to it and later on it went away.
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We're going to be talking a little bit about that later on also.
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We'll get back to the money later on.
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I will have more to say about this function of art later on.
Academic text (1995) -
I'll be back later on to pick you up.
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I had first played it on piano, my primary instrument, and then later on guitar.
Academic text (2011) -
Later on, they were doing mercenary work.
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We'll discuss the results of the project later on after the meeting.
Synonyms
574
1.0
At a later time than something else
204
1.1
At a later time
188
3.7
At a time in the future
113
4.8
After something else happens
92
4.4
At some point in the future
88
4.1
From that time on
2
5.1
At a later time
At a time after now or after a time already said
Antonyms
How Late
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'at a time after the present' is directly compositional from 'later' (after a referenced time) with 'on' functioning as a temporal/discourse particle that adds slight emphasis or continuity but does not change the core temporal sense. This combination follows a common English temporal pattern and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrase later on comes from the simple image of time as a road: something that is later is a little further on that road. So when we say 'after now' or 'after the time mentioned', we mean it will happen later on.