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latecoming

latecoming adjective: arriving late.

Adjective

latecoming (comparative more latecoming, superlative most latecoming)

  1. Arriving late.
    • A latecoming and rejected minority in the Midwest, Mormons became Utah's original settlers.1984, Charles S. Peterson, Utah: A History, page 33
    • (My uncle, a latecoming passionate Jew, had not given his children the Jewish education I had received.)2017, Eugene Goodheart, Confessions of a Secular Jew, page 231

Forms of latecoming

comparativemore latecoming
superlativemost latecoming

Origin of latecoming

From late + coming.

Questions about latecoming

What does latecoming mean?
Latecoming means arriving late.
What part of speech is latecoming?
Latecoming is an adjective.

Words near latecoming in the dictionary

  1. late-wakes
  2. latebra
  3. latebricole
  4. latecomer
  5. latecomers
  6. latecoming
  7. lated
  8. Lateef
  9. lateen
  10. lateened
  11. lateener

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