1 at a time in the future; after the time you are talking about:
See you later. * I met her again three years later. * His father died later that year. * We're going to Rome later in the year. * She later became a doctor.
OPPEARLIER
2 (Later!) (spoken) a way of saying goodbye, used by young people:
Later, guys!
IDIOMS
later on (informal) at a time in the future; after the time you are talking about:
I'm going out later on. * Much later on, she realized what he had meant.
not / no later than... by a particular time and not after it:
Entries must arrive no later than 12 June.
adjective [onlybeforenoun]
1 coming after sth else or at a time in the future:
This is discussed in more detail in a later chapter. * The match has been postponed to a later date.
2 near the end of a period of time, life, etc:
the later part of the seventeenth century * She found happiness in her later years.
OPPEARLIER
IDIOMS see SOON
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Is later a noun, verb, or something else?
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