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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
belated
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
recognition
▪ Most importantly it is a belated recognition that imperialism offers a fantastically huge and barely mined seam of stories.
▪ Such a belated recognition is likely to strike a reader as old news.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a belated birthday card
▪ her belated realisation that he was in love with someone else
▪ I got a belated birthday card from my cousin yesterday.
▪ John made a belated attempt to apologize.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A belated rush to help is under way, complete with the good intentions and hazards that hasty rescues invariably bring.
▪ He was given a belated birthday cake with 60 candles.
▪ I set him down on the hood of the car and gave him a belated warning about snakes.
▪ It was while they were finishing their belated tea that Mrs Blunt arrived.
▪ Of course I welcome that, but it is a belated conversion.
▪ The recent production of the play that used the gay version was a fascinating experiment, not a belated act of justice.
▪ The Revolution certainly marked a belated victory for the policy of Exclusion, and finally established the legislative sovereignty of Parliament.
▪ Their subsequent revival and belated acceptance into the rock fold was one of the period's more surprising reversals.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Belated

Belate \Be*late"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Belated; p. pr. & vb. n. Belating.] To retard or make too late.
--Davenant.

Belated

Belated \Be*lat"ed\, a. Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted. ``Some belated peasant.''
--Milton. -- Be*lat"ed*ness, n.
--Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
belated

1610s, "overtaken by night," past participle adjective from belate "to make late, detain," from be- + late. Sense of "coming past due, behind date" is from 1660s. Related: Belatedly.

Wiktionary
belated
  1. Later in relation to the proper time something should have happened. v

  2. (en-past of: belate)

WordNet
belated

adj. after the expected or usual time; delayed; "a belated birthday card"; "I'm late for the plane"; "the train is late"; "tardy children are sent to the principal"; "always tardy in making dental appointments" [syn: late, tardy]

Usage examples of "belated".

Utter silence followed this pronouncement, such that even far across the cathedral square, the rustle of parchment could be heard as the papal chaplain rolled up his scroll, turning away to converse quietly with two waiting prelates as a belated murmur of conversation rippled through the crowd.

That thought led him to belated recollection of Roger Mac and the new tenants.

He glanced at me, and I saw his mouth twist, as he had his own moment of belated realization.

To their shrill cluttering was added the yelps of Bijou and the belated screams of Lalla.

Stuart Buffin to make a most belated appearance at breakfast that morning.

Then Mama picked me up in her arms, recovered the drum and drumsticks from the Vicar, and promised Father Wiehnke to pay for the damage, whereupon he accorded her a belated absolution, for I had interrupted her confession: even Oskar got a little of the blessing, though I could have done without it.

Wizard helped him to the dumpster and he leaned against it until the belated adrenalin shudders had passed.

Once as they were sauntering homeward by the brink of the turbid Eger, they came to a man lying on the grass with a pipe in his mouth, and lazily watching from under his fallen lids the cows grazing by the river-side, while in a field of scraggy wheat a file of women were reaping a belated harvest with sickles, bending wearily over to clutch the stems together and cut them with their hooked blades.

Whatever poetical or imaginative suggestions might lie in this scene for others, it made no such appeal to Tom Emmet as he strode along, passing belated pedestrians in his course.

Then a night hawk screamed, a whippoor-will complained, a belated killdeer swept the sky, and the night wind sang a louder song.

They were convinced of one thing: that this leisurely-mannered, well-dressed stranger could not have been the foe that they and their belated friends had battled around the streets of Pomelo City.

Eduard Seler and Walter Lehmann, were the first to give the Tezcucan chronicler belated credit for having told far more truth than anyone had ever suspected.

They were belated revellers, and had been carelessly strolling under the pinky cloudlets bedward, after a prolonged carousal with the sons and daughters of hilarious nations, until the apparition of Virgin Luck on the wing shocked all prospect of a dead fight with the tables that day.

Besides, methought that was the purpose in the belated spring plantings.

But even in a Cathedral town, even after midnight, several successive expeditions of a lay precentor with a wheelbarrow full of quicklime would have been apt to attract the comment of some belated physician, some cleric coming from a sick bed, or some local roysterers.