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

The lateness piqued the man.
Workers toiled late at night.
The phone rings late in the night.
Lately Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The meeting is prolonged until late in the night.
By the late 1930s, the organization disintegrated.
Many boisterous restaurants are open late into the night.
"I hate the phrase late bloomers ," our gawky heroine laments.
It was a late night and tiredness can make things a wee bit blurry.
The potlatch lasted late into the night, and soon everyone was asleep.
Late in the game, a swarm of insects circled the mound in the late innings.
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_."