3 → be too late4 after usual timeLATE happening or done after the usual or normal time a late breakfast The harvest was late this year because of the rain. Of late · Too late · Late starter · Late-breaking

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of late meaning, definition, what is of late: recently: Learn more.

late of something meaning, definition, what is late of something: used about someone who has died fairly r...: Learn more.

too late after the time when something could or should have been done. The advice came too late. → late

if you do something late in life, you do it at an older age than most people do it → late Examples from the Corpus late in life

be too late to arrive or do something after the time when something could or should have been done.

late-night meaning, definition, what is late-night: happening late at night: Learn more.

someone who begins doing something, especially a job, later in life than people generally do.

used to express surprise that something considered old-fashioned was still happening so recently. Capital punishment was still used in Britain as late as the ...