Usually means: Recently, in the past weeks.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word Lately:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. lately: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lately: Merriam-Webster
  3. lately: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lately: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lately: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lately: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lately, lately: Wordnik
  8. lately: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lately: Wiktionary
  10. lately: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lately: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lately: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Lately, lately: Dictionary.com
  14. lately: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Lately (Divine song), Lately (EP), Lately (Lisa Scott-Lee song), Lately (Skunk Anansie song), Lately (Stevie Wonder song), Lately (Tyrese song), Lately: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lately: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lately: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lately: Rhymezone
  19. lately: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lately: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. lately: FreeDictionary.org
  22. lately: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. lately: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. lately: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lately: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lately: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lately)

▸ adverb:  Recently; not long ago; of late.
▸ adverb:  (slang) In a late manner; after-the-fact.
▸ adverb:  (of a peer) Formerly.

Similar:
recently, late, latterly, of late, as of late, newly, the other day, freshly, modernly, just, more...

Opposite:
formerly, previously, earlier, once, historically

Types:
recently, more...

Phrases:
Johnny Come Lately, johnnies come lately, Chelsea Lately, Lately I Feel Everything, Have I Told You Lately, more...



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Similar:
recently, late, latterly, of late, as of late, newly, the other day, freshly, modernly, just, more...

Opposite:
formerly, previously, earlier, once, historically

Types:
recently, more...

Phrases:
Johnny Come Lately, johnnies come lately, Chelsea Lately, Lately I Feel Everything, Have I Told You Lately, What Have You Done for Me Lately, Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?, more...



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