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[ lat-er-dey ] / ˈlæt ərˌdeɪ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR latter-day ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveof a later or following period: latter-day pioneers. of the present period or time; modern: the latter-day problems of our society. Origin of latter-dayFirst recorded in 1835–45; latter + day Words nearby latter-day-latry, lats, latte, latten, latter, latter-day, Latter-day Saint, Latter-Day Saints, latterly, lattermost, lattice Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for latter-dayThink of a latter-day Americanized version of Downton Abbey—where everyone knows his or her place, and our betters look best. ‘Downton Abbey’ Democrats May Cost their Party the Senate|Lloyd Green|March 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST Every decent liberal should defend his right to speak against the latter-day totalitarians who denied it yesterday. Brown University’s Campus Liberals vs. Free Speech|Peter Beinart|October 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST An influential young pro-Kremlin politician is trying to get the Latter-day Saints banned from the country. Russia’s Anti-Mormon Campaign|Anna Nemtsova|December 9, 2012|DAILY BEAST This is an inexplicable case of lame and latter-day rather than rapid response. R.I.P., Mitt Romney|Robert Shrum|November 2, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Already, with the use of his face on T-shirts and placards, Assange is beginning to resemble some latter-day digital Che Guevara. Assange Makes His Case in London Embassy Speech|Peter Jukes|August 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST And now I wake to find myself leagued with the Empson and Dudley of our latter-day law courts. Orley Farm|Anthony Trollope At the close of the fourth probationary year, the plates and accessories were given into the custody of the latter-day seer. The Vitality of Mormonism--Brief Essays|James E. Talmage How little the outside world know of these things, or of the faith of the Latter-day Saints! A String of Pearls|Various These writers possessed in an eminent degree the faculty called by latter-day scholars the imaginative in history-writing. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2|Hubert Howe Bancroft That had been able to gather and arrange within itself the various elements of latter-day paganism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5|Various
British Dictionary definitions for latter-dayCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to latter-dayavant-garde, coincident, concomitant, concurrent, contemporary, current, fresh, last word, late, latest, modernistic, modish, newfangled, novel, now, present, present-day, prevailing, prevalent, recent |