- coming after something else or at a time in the future
- Rembrandt's later works
- This is discussed in more detail in a later chapter.
- The judge will give her ruling at a later date.
- The match has been postponed to a later date.
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- near the end of a period of time, life, etc.
- the later part of the seventeenth century
- In later life he started playing golf.
- She found happiness in her later years.
opposite early
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