different between sooner vs later

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sun?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?su?n?/
• Rhymes: -u?n?(?)

Adjective

sooner

1. comparative form of soon: more soon

Adverb

sooner

1. comparative form of soon: more soon
2. rather.

   I would sooner die than marry you!

Derived terms

• sooner or later

Translations

Anagrams

• Roneos, nooser, seroon, sonero

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?le?t?/
• (US) enPR: l??t?r, IPA^(key): /?le?t?/, [?le????]
• Rhymes: -e?t?(?)

Etymology

• Adverb: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lator, equivalent to late +? -er.
• Adjective: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lætra, equivalent to late +? -er.

Cognate with Saterland Frisian leeter (“later”), West Frisian letter (“later”), Dutch later (“later”), German Low German later (“later”).

Adverb

later

1. comparative form of late: more late

2. Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).

3. At some unspecified time in the future.

Synonyms

• (afterward in time): afterwards, hereafter; see also Thesaurus:subsequently
• (at some unspecified time in the future): later on, someday; see also Thesaurus:one day

Antonyms

• earlier

Derived terms

• smell ya later, smell you later

Translations

Adjective

later

1. comparative form of late: more late

   Jim was later than John.

2. Coming afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).

   The Victorian era is a later period of English history than the Elizabethan era.

3. Coming afterward in distance (following an antecedent distance as embedded within an adverbial phrase)

   I felt some leg pain during the first mile of my run and I strained my calf two miles later .

4. At some time in the future.

   The meeting was adjourned to a later date.

Antonyms

• earlier

Translations

Interjection

later

1. (slang) See you later; goodbye.

   Later, dude.

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Alert, alert, alter, alter-, altre, artel, ratel, taler, telar

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la?.t?r/
• Rhymes: -a?t?r

Adjective

later

1. Comparative form of laat
2. Having to do with or occurring in the future.

Inflection

Antonyms

• eerder
• vroeger

Adverb

later

1. later
2. in the future

Antonyms

• eerder

Anagrams

• alert, ratel

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleth?- (“flat”), or from *stelh?- (“broad”) (in which case latus would be its neuter form).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?la.ter/, [???ät??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?la.ter/, [?l??t??r]

Noun

later m (genitive lateris); third declension

1. brick, tile

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• later?cius
• laterculus

References

• later in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• later in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• later in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• later in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• later in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French terre

Noun

later

1. land, earth, soil

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

later

1. present of late

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse latr, from Proto-Germanic *lataz.

Adjective

later

1. lazy, sluggish

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: lat

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From French terre

Noun

later

1. land, earth, soil

Swedish

Noun

later

1. indefinite plural of lat

Anagrams

• alert, artel, letar, realt