late
/leɪt/ adverb A1- After a deadline has passed, past a designated time. · We drove as fast as we could, but we still arrived late.
- Formerly, especially in the context of service in a military unit. · Colonel Easterwood, late of the 34th Carbines, was a guest at the dinner party.· The Hendersons will all be there / Late of Pablo Fanque's Fair / What a scene!
- Not long ago; just now, recently.
Comparative later · Superlative latest
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But now I fear it is too late.
“I’ve put it off too late.
“Oh, I’ve had such a curious dream!” said Alice, and she told her sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange Adventures of hers that you have just been reading about; and when she had finished, her sister kissed her, and said, “It _was_ a curious dream, dear, certainly: but now run in to your tea; it’s getting late.” So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been.
Late in the night when the fires are out,
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