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Adjektiivit
- Near the end of a period of time.
- Specifically, near the end of the day.
- (usually, not used comparatively) Associated with the end of a period.
- Not arriving until after an expected time.
- Not having had an expected menstrual period.
- (not comparable, euphemistic) Deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person's actions while alive. (Generally must be preceded by a possessive or an article, commonly "the". Can itself only precede the person's name, never follow it.
- Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; departed, or gone out of office.
- Recent — relative to the noun it modifies.
Substantiivit
- (informal) A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place late in the day or at night.
Adverbit
- After a deadline has passed, past a designated time.
- formerly, especially in the context of service in a military unit.
Esimerkit
- the late bishop of London; the late administration
- The news came late this evening.
- my late parents edesmenneet vanhempani
- The bus was late this morning.
- This is a story told by the late Benson Foley of San Francisco.
- Colonel Easterwood, late of the 34th Carbines, was a guest at the dinner party.
- We drove as fast as we could, but we still arrived late.
- At about 11 pm one night in Corporation Street my watch were on van patrol and Yellow Watch were on lates as usual.
- Lancaster bore him — such a little town, / Such a great man. It doesn't see him often / Of late years, though he keeps the old homestead / And sends the children down there with their mother[...]
- It was late in the evening when we finally arrived.
- The piece was composed by the late Igor Stravinsky.
- Her late husband had left her well provided for.
- To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.
- I'm late, honey. Could you buy a test?
- Panos was so late that he arrived at the meeting after Antonio, who had the excuse of being in hospital for most of the night.
- Even though we drove as fast as we could, we were still late.
- Late Latin is less fully inflected than classical Latin.
- It was getting late and I was tired.
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