LATTER-DAY


Meaning of LATTER-DAY in English

ˈlatter-day BrE AmE adjective [only before noun]

1 . a latter-day Versailles/Tsar/Robin Hood etc something or someone that exists now but is like a famous thing or person that existed in the past:

He ruled his business empire like a latter-day Tsar.

2 . relating to a recent period of time, rather than an earlier one:

Latter-day students could never meet the college entrance standards required in the 1940s.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.