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Definitions of later

  1.   Comparative degree of late; longer delayed; subsequent.
  2.   at some eventual time in the future; " By and by he'll understand"; " I'll see you later"
  3.   more advanced in time or nearer to the end in a sequence; " these latter days"; " the latter ( or last) part of the book"; " latter ( or later) part of the 18th century"
  4.   comparative of the adverb ` late'; " he stayed later than you did"
  5.   At a subsequent time; hereafter.
  6.   happening at a time subsequent to a reference time; " he apologized subsequently"; " he's going to the store but he'll be back here later"; " it didn't happen until afterward"; " two hours after that"
  7.   Compar. of Late, a. & adv.
  8.   Compar. of Late, a. & amp; adv.
  9.   at or toward an end or late period or stage of development; " the late phase of feudalism"; " a later symptom of the disease"; " later medical science could have saved the child"
  10.   A brick or tile.
  11.   coming at a subsequent time or stage; " the future president entered college at the age of 16"; " awaiting future actions on the bill"; " later developments"; " without ulterior argument"

Antonyms for later

anteriorly, Afore, advance, previous, primitive, Preliminarily, young, fore, inchoate, beforehand, forward, yet, embryotic, formerly, precocious, antecedently, preliminary, front, archaic, rude, embryonic, advanced, before, early, theretofore, prior, already, antecedent, earlier, foregoing, crude, incipient, former, anterior, preceding, precedent, ahead, previously, introductory, new.

Quotes of later

  1. My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians. – Walter Becker
  2. At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later But it wound up being later later than I thought it was going to be. – Delta Burke
  3. I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later in 65 or 66. That really impressed me- Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing. – Luc Ferrari
  4. No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard. – Robert Frost
  5. There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. – Hippocrates
  6. I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have. – Jack Irons
  7. Really, we don't know what to make of it except that we're delighted about it. We have all these fans thirty years later and they're still around and will probably be around for a long time to come. – Russell Johnson
  8. Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind. – Ramana Maharshi
  9. Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. – Margaret Mead
  10. What genre it falls under is only of interest later – Rick Moody
  11. Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet have the four children I later had. I must add I also gave him a certain taste for food. – Georges Simenon
  12. He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles. – Kit Williams
  13. I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line. – Dick Wolf
  14. I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. – Virginia Woolf
  15. In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption. – Anthony Zinni

Usage examples for later

  1. “ Later this might not be the case. ” – The Girl at Cobhurst by Frank Richard Stockton
  2. “ Perhaps, later on, but not now. ” – The Enchanted Canyon by Honoré Willsie Morrow
  3. “ We could do it later ” – A Duet by A. Conan Doyle
  4. “ Would you be wantin' any dinner later ” – Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews
  5. “ But he is coming up to see you later this evening. ” – Eve to the Rescue by Ethel Hueston
  6. “ I shall remember later ” – Marie Bashkirtseff (From Childhood to Girlhood) by Marie Bashkirtseff
  7. “ An hour later there was no doubt about it. ” – The Adventures of Akbar by Flora Annie Steel
  8. “ " I'll explain it later said Katherine. ” – Counsel for the Defense by Leroy Scott
  9. “ Then later he says, he has been and gone and done it. ” – Lafcadio Hearn by Nina H. Kennard
  10. “ Minor and later Novelists. ” – A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
  11. “ It had to come to this, he said, sooner or later ” – The Sowers by Henry Seton Merriman
  12. “ Come and see how another, and a later read it." ” – The Ship of Stars by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
  13. “ That must come later ” – Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore
  14. “ We'll talk later on. ” – Gunman's Reckoning by Max Brand
  15. “ An hour later we heard all about it. ” – Letters from France by C. E. W. Bean
  16. “ Well, we will talk about it later and see. ” – Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas
  17. “ For once in his life he had come home later than Crailey. ” – The Two Vanrevels by Booth Tarkington
  18. “ He didn't come till later ” – The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise by Margaret Burnham
  19. “ Later they were separated. ” – Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
  20. “ We can settle that later ” – Fifty Fabulous Fables by Lida Brown McMurry

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