Late
Coming after the time when due, or after the usual or proper time; not early; slow; tardy; long delayed; as, a late spring.
Far advanced toward the end or close; as, a late hour of the day; a late period of life.
Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; lately deceased, departed, or gone out of office; as, the late bishop of London; the late administration.
Not long past; happening not long ago; recent; as, the late rains; we have received late intelligence.
Continuing or doing until an advanced hour of the night; as, late revels; a late watcher.
After the usual or proper time, or the time appointed; after delay; as, he arrived late; -- opposed to early.
Not long ago; lately.
Far in the night, day, week, or other particular period; as, to lie abed late; to sit up late at night.
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Late Quotations
I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
Marilyn Monroe
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
Mark Twain
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin
He that rises late must trot all day.
Benjamin Franklin
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.
Mitch Hedberg
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Henry David Thoreau
It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.
Henry David Thoreau
Late Translations
late in Afrikaans is laat
late in Danish is sen, sent
late in Dutch is laat, vergevorderd
late in Latin is sero, tardus
late in Portuguese is tarde
late in Spanish is tarde
late in Swedish is sen
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