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gotten late

gotten late is the 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 gotten late

What is gotten late the past participle of?
Gotten late is the past participle of get late.

Words near gotten late in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gotten 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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