{
    "term": "late",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "arriving, happening or done after the expected, arranged or usual time",
            "sensetop": "late for something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I'm sorry I'm late."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's late for work every day.",
                    "contextForm": "late for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "My flight was an hour late."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We apologize for the late arrival of this train."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Interest will be charged for late payment."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Because of the cold weather the crops are later this year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Here is a late news flash."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some children are very late developers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm late for work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was now three weeks late with his rent."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was fashionably late as always."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The train was 45 minutes late."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You've left it a bit late to start your homework, haven't you?"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["for", "in", "into"],
                "phrases": [
                    "an hour, ten minutes, etc. late",
                    "leave it rather, very, etc. late"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "near the end of a period of time, a person’s life, etc.",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "in the late afternoon"
                },
                {
                    "text": "in late summer"
                },
                {
                    "text": "young people in their late teens *(= aged 18 or 19)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She married in her late twenties *(= when she was 28 or 29)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The school was built in the late 1970s."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The concert was cancelled at a very **late stage**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "United sealed the win with two late goals."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Shakespeare's late plays"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a late Victorian house"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "near the end of the day",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Let's go home—**it's getting late**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Look at the time—it's much later than I thought."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What is the latest time I can have an appointment?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't know what the time is, but it feels quite late."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was now late into the night."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What are you doing up at this late hour?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "no longer alive",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She spoke of her late husband with passion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The event was organized in memory of the late Stephen Hawking."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "happening after the time when it is possible to do something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It's too late to save her now."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Buy now before it's too late."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I’m afraid you’re too late to apply for the job."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The doctors did all they could, but it was too late."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's getting too late to do anything today."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/leɪt/",
                "audio": "la/late/late__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/leɪt/",
                "audio": "la/late/late__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English læt (adjective; also in the sense ‘slow, tardy’), late (adverb), of Germanic origin; related to German lass, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin lassus ‘weary’ and let."
}