Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb Not long ago; recently.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Recently; of late; not long ago; not long before.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Not long ago; recently.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb Recently; not long ago.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in the recent past

Etymologies

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late +‎ -ly

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