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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun latter has 1 sense

latter(n = noun.linkdef) - the second of two or the second mentioned of two; "Tom and Dick were both heroes but only the latter is remembered today"

is a kind of

second

Antonym: former

Adjective latter has 1 sense

latter(a = adj.all) - referring to the second of two things or persons mentioned (or the last one or ones of several); "in the latter case"

Antonym:

former

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CIDE DICTIONARY

latter, a. [OE. later, lætter, compar. of lat late. See Late, and cf. Later.].

Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain. [1913 Webster]
Of two things, the one mentioned second. [1913 Webster]
"The difference between reason and revelation, and in what sense the latter is superior." [1913 Webster]
Recent; modern. [1913 Webster]
"Hath not navigation discovered in these latter ages, whole nations at the bay of Soldania?" [1913 Webster]
Last; latest; final. Shak. [1913 Webster]

Latter harvest, the last part of the harvest. -- Latter spring, the last part of the spring of the year. Shak.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

latter, adj.
1 a denoting the second-mentioned of two, or disp. the last-mentioned of three or more. b (prec. by the; usu. absol.) the second- or last-mentioned person or thing.
2 nearer to the end (the latter part of the year).
3 recent.
4 belonging to the end of a period, of the world, etc.

Idiom

latter-day modern, newfangled. Latter-day Saints the Mormons' name for themselves.

Etymology

OE l{aelig}tra, compar. of l{aelig}t LATE

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ROGET THESAURUS

latter

Sequence

N sequence, coming after, going after, consecution, succession, posteriority, continuation, order of succession, successiveness, paracme, secondariness, subordinancy, afterbirth, afterburden, placenta, secundines, succeeding, v, sequent, subsequent, consequent, sequacious, proximate, next, consecutive, alternate, amoebean, latter, posterior, after, subsequently, behind, sequence, coming after, (time), following pursuit, follower, attendant, satellite, shadow, dangler, train, subsequent, next, succeeding, following, behind, in the rear, in the train of, in the wake of, after.

The Past

N the past, past time, days of yore, times of yore, days of old, times of old, days past, times past, days gone by, times gone by, bygone days, old times, ancient times, former times, fore time, the good old days, the olden time, good old time, auld lang syne, eld, antiquity, antiqueness, status quo, time immemorial, distance of time, remote age, remote time, remote past, rust of antiquity, paleontology, paleography, paleology, paleozoology, palaetiology, archaeology, paleogeography, paleoecology, paleobotany, paleoclimatoogy, archaism, antiquarianism, medievalism, Pre-Raphaelitism, paleography, retrospect, retrospection, looking back, memory, laudator temporis acti, medievalist, Pre-Raphaelite, antiquary, antiquarian, archmologist, Oldbuck, Dryasdust, ancestry, past, gone, gone by, over, passed away, bygone, foregone, elapsed, lapsed, preterlapsed, expired, no more, run out, blown over, has-been, that has been, extinct, antediluvian, antebellum, never to return, gone with the wind, exploded, forgotten, irrecoverable, obsolete, former, pristine, quondam, ci-devant, late, ancestral, foregoing, last, latter, recent, over night, preterperfect, preterpluperfect, looking back, retrospective, retroactive, archaeological, paleo-, archaeo-, formerly, of old, of yore, erst, whilom, erewhile, time was, ago, over, in the olden time, anciently, long ago, long since, a long while, a long time ago, years ago, yesteryear, ages ago, some time ago, some time since, some time back, yesterday, the day before yesterday, last year, ultimo, lately, retrospectively, ere now, before now, till now, hitherto, heretofore, no longer, once, once upon a time, from time immemorial, from prehistoric times, in the memory of man, time out of mind, already, yet, up to this time, ex post facto, time was, the time has been, the time hath been, you can't go home again, fuimus Troes, fruit Ilium, hoc erat in more majorum, O call back yesterday, bid time return, tempi passati, the eternal landscape of the past, ultimus Romanorum, what's past is prologue, whose yesterdays look backward with a smile, Time with reference to a particular period.