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adj. Comparative of late.

adv. Comparative of late.
Subsequently; afterward. Often used with on: She arrived on the ferry, and he came later. He later felt that he was wrong. Later on, we watched a movie.

interj.
Informal. Used to express goodbye.


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adjective

  1. Following something else in time: after, posterior, subsequent, ulterior. See precede/follow.
  2. Being or occurring in the time ahead: coming, future, subsequent. See precede/follow, time.

adverb

    At a subsequent time: after, afterward, afterwards, latterly, next, subsequently, ulteriorly. Idioms: after a while, by and by, later on. See precede/follow.

Idioms beginning with later:
later on

In addition to the idiom beginning with later, also see sooner or later. Also see under late.


adj, adv

Definition: coming after
Antonyms: before, earlier, prior

A brick, formed in a mold and dried in the sun or baked in a kiln by the early Greeks and Romans; much larger and much thinner than modern bricks; each brick was stamped with the name of the maker and the year in which it was made.


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