{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "leɪt" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/late.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/late.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/late.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/late.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English late, lat, from Old English læt (“slow; slack, lax, negligent; late”), from Proto-West Germanic *lat, from Proto-Germanic *lataz (“slow, lazy”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Near the end of a period of time.\nThe seedlings appeared to be coming along nicely until a late frost killed them." }, { "mean": "Specifically, near the end of the day.\nIt was getting late and I was tired." }, { "mean": "(usually not comparable) Associated with the end of a period.\nLate Latin is less fully inflected than classical Latin." }, { "mean": "Not arriving or occurring until after an expected time.\nThe flowers were late in blooming because of the prolonged cold weather.\nPanos was so late that he arrived at the meeting after Antonio, who had the excuse of being in hospital for most of the night." }, { "mean": "Levied as a surcharge on a payment received after a deadline.\nThe power company suspended late fees during the pandemic." }, { "mean": "Not having had an expected menstrual period.\nI'm late, honey. Could you buy a test?\n1992 February 5, Larry Charles; Elaine Pope, “The Fix-Up”, in Seinfeld, spoken by Cynthia (Maggie Wheeler):I am very worried. I am never late." }, { "mean": "(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.)\nHer late husband had left her well provided for.\nThe piece was composed by the late Igor Stravinsky.\n1918, W B Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 181:To Edward he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.\n1969 December 7, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, spoken by Mr Praline (John Cleese):This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!\nOrder 3(ca)(i), Public Order (Prohibited Areas) Order 2009 (G.N. S 490/2009)\nThe following public assemblies and public processions are excluded from the prohibition in paragraph 2: any public assembly or public procession in an open space that is held primarily to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew \n2022 December 14, Nadia Khomami, quoting Iman, “‘He’s not my “late” husband’: Iman speaks of grief over death of David Bowie”, in The Guardian‎:“He is not my ‘late husband’. He is my husband,” she said, before discussing how the couple had managed to retain their independent identities while together." }, { "mean": "Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; departed, or gone out of office.\nthe late bishop of London\nthe late administration\n1640, Edvvard Reynoldes, A Treatise of the Passions and Facvlties of the Soul of Man. With the severall Dignities and Corruptions thereunto belonging., London: R. H. for Robert Bostock, :By Edvvard Reynoldes, late Preacher to the Honorable Society of Lincoln’s Inne: And now Rector of the Church of Braunſton in Northamptonſhire." }, { "mean": "Recent — relative to the noun it modifies.\n1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 23, column 1:OLd Iohn of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaſter,Haſt thou according to thy oath and bandBrought hither Henry Herford thy bold ſon:Heere to make good yͤ boiſtrous late appeale,Which then our leyſure would not let vs heare,Againſt the Duke of Norfolke, Thomas Mowbray?\n1914, Robert Frost, “A Hundred Collars”, in North of Boston:Lancaster bore him—such a little town, / Such a great man. It doesn't see him often / Of late years, though he keeps the old homestead / And sends the children down there with their mother" }, { "mean": "(astronomy) Of a star or class of stars, cooler than the sun." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(informal) A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place late in the day or at night.\n2007, Paul W Browning, The Good Guys Wear Blue:At about 11 pm one night in Corporation Street my watch were on van patrol and Yellow Watch were on late as usual." } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "After a deadline has passed, past a designated time.\nWe drove as fast as we could, but we still arrived late." }, { "mean": "Formerly, especially in the context of service in a military unit.\nColonel Easterwood, late of the 34th Carbines, was a guest at the dinner party.\nThe Hendersons will all be there / Late of Pablo Fanque's Fair / What a scene!" }, { "mean": "Not long ago; just now.\nc. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 181, column 1:He ſhall doe this, or elſe I doe recant / The pardon that I late pronounced heere." } ] }, { "name": "Derived_terms", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Terms derived from late (all senses)\na day late and a dollar short\nas of late\nbe late\nbetter late than never\nbetter to be late than be dead on time\nday late, dollar short\nearly and late\nfashionably late\nget late\nit's never too late to mend\nit's too late for sorry\nlate antique\nlate binding\nlate bloomer\nlate capitalism\nlate fee\nlate in the day\nlate in the game\nlate innings\nlate lamented\nlate model\nlate modern\nlate modernity\nlate night\nlate on\nlate position\nlate riser\nlate stage capitalism\nlate tackle\nlate to the party\nlate unpleasantness\nlate-blooming\nlate-bound\nlate-night\nlate-stage capitalism\nlate-term\nlate-type star\nlate-wake\nlatecomer\nlately\nlater\nof late\nrun late\nrun late\nsooner or later\nsorry I'm late\nstay up late\ntwo thousand and late\nyou'll be late for your own funeral" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "부사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "파생_항", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }