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of late

of late prepositional phrase: in the recent past; recently; lately.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) In the recent past; recently; lately.
    • I have not visited them of late, but I hear they are doing well.
    • Has anyone else read what Lady Whistledown has written of late?2020 December 25, Chris Van Dusen, “Diamond of the First Water”, in Bridgerton, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Eloise Bridgerton
    Synonyms:
    freshly, late

of late meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

of late in Tamil

சென்ற சில காலமாக

of late in Urdu

آج کل, ابھی, چند روز سے, حال ہی میں

of late in Malayalam

recently, lately, latterly
ഈയിടെ, ഈയിടെയായി, അടുത്ത സമയത്ത്, അടുത്ത കാലത്ത്, ഈയടുത്ത കാലത്ത്, അടുത്തയിടയ്ക്ക്

of late in Kannada

ಇತ್ತೀಚೆಗೆ, ಈಗೀಗ
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of late in Thai
ช่วงนี้

Synonyms of of late

Questions about of late

What does of late mean?
Of late means in the recent past; recently; lately.
What is of late in Tamil?
Of late in Tamil is சென்ற சில காலமாக. See Of late meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is of late?
Of late is a prepositional phrase.

Words near of late in the dictionary

  1. of its own study
  2. of its part
  3. of its proper movement
  4. of itself
  5. of Koranic proportions
  6. of late
  7. of means
  8. of mine
  9. of modest means
  10. of new
  11. of no avail

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: of late (page history and authors); of late (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); of late (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); of late (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); of late (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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