Late

Definition

late / leÇt / adj ( -r, -st ) ၁။ ေနာက္က် [ေသာ]။ My flight was an hour late. ❍ Because of the cold weather the crops are late this year. ❍ It's never too late to stop smoking. ❍ a late riser (ie sb who gets out of bed late in the morning). Compare EARLY adj ၁ ၂။ (ကာလတစ္ရပ္၏) ေနာက္ပိုင္း။ (ညေန) ေစာင္း။ (ေႏြ) ေႏွာင္း။ in the late afternoon ❍ What are you doing up at this late hour? ❍ in late summer ❍ She married in her late twenties (eg when she was 28 or 29). ❍ the late nineteenth century ❍ a late Victorian house ❍ late night buses / movies/ shopping. Compare EARLY adj ၂ ၃။ ေနာက္ဆံုးေပၚ။ ေနာက္ဆံုး။ the latest craze / fashion / trend ❍ her latest novel ❍ the latest developments / discoveries ❍ Have you heard the latest news? ❍ Here is a late news flash. ၄။ ကြယ္လြန္ခဲ့ၿပီးေသာ။ her late husband. adv ၁။ အခ်ိန္လြန္မွ။ ေနာက္က်မွ။ အရြယ္လြန္မွ။ အခါေႏွာင္းမွ။ get up / go to bed / arrive home late ❍ I sat (ie stayed) up late last night. ❍ She married late. Compare EARLY adv ၁ ၂။ (အခ်ိန္ကာလ) ေႏွာင္းပိုင္းတြင္၊ ေႏွာင္းသည္အထိ၊ ေနာက္ပိုင္း။ အသက္(ႀကီးမွ)။ It happened late last century — in 1895, to be exact. ❍ As late as the 1950s, tuberculosis was still a fatal illness. ❍ He became an author quite late in life (ie when he was quite old). Compare EARLY adv ၂ ❏ at the latest [ IDM ] ေနာက္အက်ဆံုး။ Applications should be in by 31 October at the latest. ❍ Be there by 6.30 at the latest. ❏ late in the day [ IDM ] အခ်ိန္ေႏွာင္းခဲ့ၿပီ၊ လြန္ခဲ့ၿပီ။ ေနာက္က်သြားၿပီ။ It’s rather late in the day to say you’re sorry—the harm's done now. ❏ lateness / 'leÇtnǝs / n [U] ေနာက္က်မႈ။ They apologized for the lateness of the train. ❍ He was surprised at the lateness of the hour. ဒီေလာက္ မိုးခ်ဳပ္သြားတာကို သူတအံ့တဩျဖစ္မိတယ္။ ❏ late of… [ IDM ] ( fml ) …တြင္မၾကာေသးမီ အခ်ိန္အထိ ေနထိုင္လုပ္ကိုင္ခဲ့ေသာ။ Professor Williams, late of Oxford University. ❏ of late [ IDM ] ခုတစ္ေလာ။ I haven't seen him of late. ❏ later (also later on ) adv ေနာင္ေသာအခါ။ ေနာင္က် ေတာ့။ ေနာက္ေတာ့။ I'll see you later on this afternoon. ❍ We met again some time later. ❍ Some of them were later to become her friends.

Examples

1. She phoned to say she’d be late.
2. [late for] : He was ten minutes late for school.
3. [too late] : We climbed the hill to watch the sunset
4. but we were too late.
5. There is a penalty for late registration.
6. [late with] : They’re always late with their payments.
7. We got caught in a late meeting and almost missed the start of the film.
8. The late 18th century
9. These bulbs bloom in late spring.
10. A girl in her late teens
11. If it weren’t so late I would give Donna a call.
12. The symphony is a late work.
13. A late Picasso
14. A late news development
15. My late aunt