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51Late — This name, with variant spellings Lade, Lathe, Lait and Late, derives from the Olde Norse hlatha meaning a lathe or barn, and was originally given either as a topographic name to one who lived by a barn, or as a metonymic occupational name to a… …
52late — See: better late than never, of late …
53late — 1. dead Usually in connection with someone recently deceased. Venerable enough to have been used by Caxton in 1490 but still sometimes confused with unpunctuality. 2. failing to menstruate when expected With fears of unplanned… …
54late — adj 1. tardy, behind, behind time or schedule, not on time, unpunctual; overdue, past due; slow, pro crastinative, procrastinatory, dilatory, delaying, cunc tation, cunctatory, Rare. cunctative. 2. prolonged, protracted, extended, drawn out,… …
55late — adv late; slowly; at last; lately [cmp lator, spl latost] …
56late — I Cleveland Dialect List to seek, search for a thing: lait it while you finnd it II North Country (Newcastle) Words to search, to ceek, to summon, to invite III South African Slang Origin: South African Indian slang A euphemism for dead/deceased; …
57late — [OE] English and Dutch (with laat) are the only modern European languages to use this word to express the idea of ‘behind time’. It comes from an Indo European base *lad ‘slow, weary’, which also produced Latin lassus ‘tired’ (source of English… …
58late — See you later. Usually reserved for bro s and surfer types. I ll be by in the morning to pick up my board late! …
59late — See you later. Usually reserved for bro s and surfer types. I ll be by in the morning to pick up my board late! …
60late of — formal if someone is late of a place or organization, they recently lived or worked there but do not live or work there now …
