Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Later is the comparative of late .
2.
You use ~ to refer to a time or situation that is after the one that you have been talking about or after the present one.
He resigned ten years ~...
I’ll join you ~...
Burke ~ admitted he had lied.
ADV: ADV with cl, oft amount ADV
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You use ~ on to refer to a time or situation that is after the one that you have been talking about or after the present one.
Later on I’ll be speaking to Patty Davis...
This is only going to cause me more problems ~ on.
PHRASE: PHR with cl
3.
You use ~ to refer to an event, period of time, or other thing which comes after the one that you have been talking about or after the present one.
At a ~ news conference, he said differences should not be dramatized...
The competition should have been re-scheduled for a ~ date...
ADJ: ADJ n, the ADJ, the ADJ of n
4.
You use ~ to refer to the last part of someone’s life or career or the last part of a period of history.
He found happiness in ~ life...
In his ~ years he wrote very little...
...the ~ part of the 20th century.
ADJ: ADJ n
5.
see also late
6.
sooner or ~: see sooner