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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Happening at a time subsequent to a reference time
Example:
two hours after that
Synonyms:
after; afterward; afterwards; later; later on; subsequently
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Context examples:
“I'll ask you later on to give us a help. You may go.”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
By degrees, however, his sorrow grew less, and although at times he still grieved over his loss, he was able to go about as usual, and later on he married again.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Later on, they may become anxious or aggressive, or wander away from home.
(Alzheimer's Disease, NIH: National Institute on Aging)
Later on, in the galley, I noticed that his ear was bruised and swollen.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Eclipses come in pairs, so the next eclipse due will arrive two weeks later on January 10 as a full moon lunar eclipse in Cancer at 20 degrees.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Later on I may ask more help, and of a different kind; but at first this will do.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Breast reconstruction may be done at the same time as the mastectomy, or it may be done later on.
(Breast Reconstruction, NIH: National Cancer Institute)
Later on, when the overtures became more insistent, White Fang bristled and bared his teeth and backed away.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Later on they would have to begin living life and going through the mill as he had gone.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
All the men must have seen my condition, but not one spoke or took notice of me, till I was almost grateful to Wolf Larsen, later on (I was washing the dishes), when he said: Don’t let a little thing like that bother you.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
