Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having been delayed; done or sent too late.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Coming or staying too late; overtaken by lateness, especially at night; benighted; delayed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Later in relation to the proper time something should have happened.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
belate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective after the expected or usual time; delayed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There is doubt, though, about a medal Cotta received nearly three years ago in belated recognition of his heroism, the Distinguished
Bruce Cotta 2010
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Slept and read, bought groceries, hot tub, finally scraping together enough energy to cook some Indian food in belated recognition of my wife's birthday.
Crash and burn David 2007
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Slept and read, bought groceries, hot tub, finally scraping together enough energy to cook some Indian food in belated recognition of my wife's birthday.
Archive 2007-08-01 David 2007
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Byron later snags one of the Mormons, who is wallowing in belated guilt for his romp in the land of alternative lifestyles, and stuff him with an LSD-laced hot dog.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2002
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Replacing his note-book in his pocket, he called a belated carriage, and hastily gave orders to be taken to the Clifton House.
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Dressed in a golf shirt, his face the picture of bureaucratic indemnity,Mr. Wang faced an unusually combative news conference during which reporters asked why government workers had hastily buried a damaged rail car rather then preserve it for investigators (it made rescue work easier, he said and why an unconscious 2-year-old girl was found in the wreckage long after officials had abandoned the search for survivors (he called the belated discovery "a miracle."
NYT > Home Page By ANDREW JACOBS 2011
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McCoy had fully embraced the idea of belated fatherhood his declarations to the contrary notwithstanding.
The Better Man Weinstein, Howard 1994
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Communist effort of 1871 may be termed a belated attempt on the part of
The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) John Holland Rose 1898
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And considering that she won the Yehudi Menuhin Competition at age 11, her debut on the Schubert Club's International Artist Series could almost be called "belated."
www.startribune.com 2012
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(belated, that is) (Reply to this) (Thread) ccfinlay
ccfinlay: You say it's your birthday? ccfinlay 2005
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