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got late

got late is the simple past and past participle of get late.

Meaning of get late

Verb

get late (third-person singular simple present gets late, present participle getting late, simple past got late, past participle (UK) got late or (US) gotten late)

  1. (idiomatic, impersonal) To approach nighttime.
    • It's getting late. Let's go home.

Questions about got late

What is got late the simple past and past participle of?
Got late is the simple past and past participle of get late.

Words near got late in the dictionary

  1. got it on
  2. got it together
  3. got it twisted
  4. got it up
  5. got laid
  6. got late
  7. got life
  8. got lost
  9. got lucky
  10. got Mario Karted
  11. got married

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Adapted from Wiktionary: got late (page history and authors); get late (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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