LATE


Meaning of LATE in English

I.

adj.

VERBS

▪ be , feel , seem

I don't know what the time is, but it feels quite ~.

▪ get , grow

It's getting too ~ to do anything today.

▪ make sb

ADVERB

▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.

▪ relatively

▪ a little , slightly , etc.

▪ fashionably

Kevin was fashionably ~ as always.

PREPOSITION

▪ for

I'm ~ for work.

▪ in

He took up music ~ in life.

▪ into

It was now ~ into the night.

▪ with

He was now three weeks ~ with his rent.

PHRASES

▪ an hour, ten minutes, etc. ~

The train was 45 minutes ~.

▪ leave it rather, very, etc. ~

You've left it rather ~ to start your homework, haven't you?

Late is used with these nouns: ↑ abortion , ↑ adolescence , ↑ afternoon , ↑ antiquity , ↑ arrival , ↑ autumn , ↑ bell , ↑ booking , ↑ breakfast , ↑ brother , ↑ capitalism , ↑ childhood , ↑ delivery , ↑ departure , ↑ dinner , ↑ Easter , ↑ emergence , ↑ emperor , ↑ entrant , ↑ entry , ↑ evening , ↑ fall , ↑ father , ↑ fee , ↑ frost , ↑ hour , ↑ husband , ↑ lunch , ↑ marriage , ↑ middle age , ↑ morning , ↑ mother , ↑ news , ↑ night , ↑ onset , ↑ painting , ↑ payment , ↑ penalty , ↑ period , ↑ pregnancy , ↑ rally , ↑ replacement , ↑ session , ↑ shift , ↑ sister , ↑ spring , ↑ stage , ↑ start , ↑ summer , ↑ sun , ↑ supper , ↑ surge , ↑ tackle , ↑ teens , ↑ trading , ↑ try , ↑ tulip , ↑ uncle , ↑ wife , ↑ winter , ↑ work

II.

adv.

Late is used with these verbs: ↑ arrive , ↑ awake , ↑ awaken , ↑ detect , ↑ rise , ↑ run , ↑ sleep , ↑ stay , ↑ wake

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