later
/ˈleɪ.tɚ/ adjective B2- Coming afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time). · The Victorian era is a later period of English history than the Elizabethan era.
- Coming afterward in distance (following an antecedent distance as embedded within an adverbial phrase) · I felt some leg pain during the first mile of my run and I strained my calf two miles later.
- At some time in the future. · The meeting was adjourned to a later date.
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I was so sure of it that for years I have been terrified if ever he came home later than was expected.”
An instant later I had come round the end of the hedge and my eyes lit upon Mrs.
Promptly at nine o’clock the next morning the green-whiskered soldier came to them, and four minutes later they all went into the Throne Room of the Great Oz.
Later, another neighbor purchased him and allowed his feathers to grow again.
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