Late and Nighttime

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Late adjective - Not arriving, occurring, or settled at the due, usual, or proper time.

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Nighttime and late are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Nighttime" instead an adjective "Late".

Nearby Words: lately, lateness

Nighttime adjective - Of, relating to, or occurring in the night.

Usage example: warnings about protecting household pets from nighttime predators in the outer reaches of suburbia

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Late and nighttime are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Late" instead an adjective "Nighttime".

Late in the film, a pitched nighttime urban gunfight is going on as McKnight's convoy arrives.

Source: Film / Black Hawk Down
The farewell conversation between Kaoru and Kenshin were done during late afternoon instead of nighttime; in turn, Kaoru was more composed (if a bit distraught) in seeing Kenshin off, instead of crying herself out.

Source: Film / Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno
Like Access/CTV Two Alberta, it still remains mandated to carry educational shows throughout the daytime, and can only air commercially-supported programming in the late afternoon and nighttime.

Source: Network Decay / Slipped

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