late

IPA: ɫˈeɪt

(informal) A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place late in the day or at night.
(pathology) Acronym of limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy, a form of dementia.

Near the end of a period of time.
Specifically, near the end of the day.
(usually not comparable) Associated with the end of a period.
Not arriving or occurring until after an expected time.
Levied as a surcharge on a payment which has not arrived by a specified deadline.
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"; see usage notes. 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.
(astronomy) Of a star or class of stars, cooler than the sun.

Examples of "late" in Sentences

"I hate the phrase late bloomers ," our gawky heroine laments.
Porges had arrived a term late in our class, so had ground to make up socially.
I should have seen what was coming after that time she got in late from the library.
They looked everywhere for his late (yes, his _late_) companion; but she had vanished.
Hobler replied that the loss of the title was not by the late Lord Mayor but by the _late_ Prince of Wales.
It was possible, wasnt it, that a typesetters mind might wander for a moment, the word late be inserted by error?
That it can't accept financial penalties for coming in late is a bow nuke power's long history of hugely expensive delays.
Some people are too late for everything but ruin; when a nobleman apologized to George III. for being late, and said, "better late than never," the king replied, "No, I say, _better never than late_."