1 coming after something else or at a time in the futureThis 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, etcthe later part of the seventeenth centuryShe found happiness in her later years.Opposite
earlier Idioms
see sooner or latersooner rather than later at soon

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