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5-letter words (6 found)

ALERT,ALTER,ARTEL,LATER,RATEL,TALER,

4-letter words (17 found)

ARET,ARLE,EARL,LAER,LARE,LATE,LEAR,LEAT,RALE,RATE,REAL,TAEL,TALE,TARE,TEAL,TEAR,TELA,

3-letter words (20 found)

ALE,ALT,ARE,ART,ATE,EAR,EAT,ELT,ERA,ETA,LAR,LAT,LEA,LET,RAT,RET,TAE,TAR,TEA,TEL,

2-letter words (12 found)

AE,AL,AR,AT,EA,EL,ER,ET,LA,RE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 56 words from later according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of later

later alter ltaer tlaer atler taler laetr aletr leatr elatr aeltr ealtr ltear tlear letar eltar telar etlar atelr taelr aetlr eatlr tealr etalr latre altre ltare tlare atlre talre larte alrte lrate rlate arlte ralte ltrae tlrae lrtae rltae trlae rtlae atrle tarle artle ratle trale rtale laert alert leart elart aelrt ealrt laret alret lraet rlaet arlet ralet lerat elrat lreat rleat erlat relat aerlt earlt arelt raelt eralt realt ltera tlera letra eltra telra etlra ltrea tlrea lrtea rltea trlea rtlea lerta elrta lreta rleta erlta relta terla etrla trela rtela ertla retla aterl taerl aetrl eatrl tearl etarl atrel tarel artel ratel trael rtael aertl eartl aretl raetl eratl reatl teral etral treal rteal ertal retal

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Definitions and meaning of later

later

Etymology

  • Adverb: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lator, equivalent to late +‎ -er.
  • Adjective: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lætra, equivalent to late +‎ -er.

Cognate with Saterland Frisian leeter (“later”), West Frisian letter (“later”), Dutch later (“later”), German Low German later (“later”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈleɪtə/
  • (US) enPR: lāʹtər, IPA(key): /ˈleɪtɚ/, [ˈleɪ̯ɾɚ]
  • Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Adverb

later

  1. comparative form of late: more late
  2. Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
  3. At some unspecified time in the future.

Synonyms

  • (afterward in time): afterwards, hereafter; see also Thesaurus:subsequently
  • (at some unspecified time in the future): later on, someday; see also Thesaurus:one day

Antonyms

  • earlier
  • (antonym(s) of "At some unspecified time in the future"): once

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

later

  1. comparative form of late: more late
    Jim was later than John.
  2. Coming afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
    The Victorian era is a later period of English history than the Elizabethan era.
  3. Coming afterward in distance (following an antecedent distance as embedded within an adverbial phrase)
    I felt some leg pain during the first mile of my run and I strained my calf two miles later.
  4. At some time in the future.
    The meeting was adjourned to a later date.

Antonyms

  • earlier

Translations

Interjection

later

  1. (slang) See you later; goodbye.
    Later, dude.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • Alert, alert, alter, alter-, altre, artel, ratel, taler, telar

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlaː.tər/
  • Rhymes: -aːtər

Adjective

later

  1. comparative degree of laat
  2. Having to do with or occurring in the future.

Inflection

Antonyms

  • eerder
  • vroeger

Adverb

later

  1. later
  2. in the future

Antonyms

  • eerder

Interjection

later

  1. bye, later
    Synonyms: dag, doei, doeg, houdoe, tabee, vaarwel

Anagrams

  • alert, ratel

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”), or from *stelh₃- (“broad”) (in which case latus (“side, flank”) would be its neuter form).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈla.ter/, [ˈɫ̪ät̪ɛr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈla.ter/, [ˈläːt̪er]

Noun

later m (genitive lateris); third declension

  1. brick, tile

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • laterīcius
  • laterculum
  • laterculus

References

  • “later”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “later”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • later in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “later”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “later”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French terre.

Noun

later

  1. land, earth, soil

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

later

  1. present of late

Old Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse latr, from Proto-Germanic *lataz.

Adjective

later

  1. lazy, sluggish
Declension
Descendants
  • Swedish: lat

Etymology 2

Verb

later

  1. first/second/third-person singular present active indicative of lata

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From French terre.

Noun

later

  1. land, earth, soil

Swedish

Noun

later

  1. indefinite plural of lat

Anagrams

  • alert, artel, letar, realt

Source: wiktionary.org