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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The second of two or the second mentioned of two
Example:
Tom and Dick were both heroes but only the latter is remembered today
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("latter" is a kind of...):
second (following the first in an ordering or series)
Antonym:
former (the first of two or the first mentioned of two)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Referring to the second of two things or persons mentioned (or the last one or ones of several)
Example:
in the latter case
Classified under:
Similar:
last mentioned (the one most recently mentioned)
Antonym:
former (referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned (or the earlier one or ones of several))
Context examples:
Matt made a couple of steps toward White Fang, but the latter slid away from him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Rather a rough road for you to travel, my little pilgrims, especially the latter part of it.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The appearance of the latter could not be more than the surprise of the moment.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
When full of flowers they would doubtless look pretty; but now, at the latter end of January, all was wintry blight and brown decay.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Among the latter, diet is the most important.
(International Research Team Finds Correlation Between Genetics and Obesity Is Modified by Diet, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
The researchers theorize that the latter had more reactions that made phosphorus because it was denser or more massive.
(Finding Alien Life Unlikely Due to Lack of Phosphorus in Universe, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The latter is a thin muscle located beneath the pectoralis major.
(Pectoralis Muscle, NCI Thesaurus)
A thick process on either side of the vertebral body that connects the latter to the vertebral arch.
(Pedicle of Vertebral Arch, NCI Thesaurus)
We resided principally in the latter, and the lives of my parents were passed in considerable seclusion.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The latter is not associated with the presence of fibrovascular cores.
(Papillary Urothelial Hyperplasia, NCI Thesaurus)
