Usually means: Subsequent to the present time.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word later:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. -later, later: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. -later, later: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. later: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. later: Collins English Dictionary
  5. later: Vocabulary.com
  6. Later, later: Wordnik
  7. later: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. later: Wiktionary
  9. later: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. later: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Later, later: Dictionary.com
  12. later: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Later (magazine), Later (talk show), Later: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Later: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. later: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. later: Rhymezone
  17. later, later: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. later: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. later: Free Dictionary
  20. later: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. later: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. later: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -later, later-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. later: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  2. later: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. LATER: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. later: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. later, later: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Later(s): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Later: 1960's Slang
  4. later: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
adverb:  At some unspecified time in the future.
adjective:  Coming afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
adjective:  Coming afterward in distance (following an antecedent distance as embedded within an adverbial phrase)
adjective:  At some time in the future.

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