laten
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 5
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Letters
- 5
Definition of laten
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(intransitive)To grow late; become later.
“The afternoon was latening, but there was, I think, a quietly commemorative glow from the west.”
“Not even when the hour latened, when the courts became filled with boys returning from their holidays, when the moment for saying "Good-bye" was only a few minutes distant, not even then did his high spirits leave him.”
“Then he returned to Margaret's side and sat with her for the rest of the evening, insisting that she rest. As the hour latened he kissed her on the cheek and got up to leave.”
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Etymology
From late + -en.
Words you can make from laten
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