adjective
definition
Relating to or being the second of two items.
definition
Near (or nearer) to the end.
definition
In the past, but close (or closer) to the present time.
Examples of latter in a Sentence
She liked the latter plan much better.
Faced with those two, I would far prefer the latter.
In the latter category, one text stuck out.
The latter part of his life was spent at Heraclea.
When there is an option between a tree and an adjacent house, the latter is doubtless the safer choice.
We suspect the latter is very largely the case.
Somehow the latter seemed more likely with Cade.
The usual inquiries as to his success was made by the latter.
A general who was standing by the guns shouted some words of command to the officer, and the latter ran back again with his men.
His latter species of good works has something peculiar in it.
What was the latter's first name?
The former and the latter were alike familiar and his own.
Boris belonged to the latter and no one else, while showing servile respect to Kutuzov, could so create an impression that the old fellow was not much good and that Bennigsen managed everything.
He looked after the former and the latter in an effective way.
He rushed at the barefooted Frenchman and, before the latter had time to draw his sword, knocked him off his feet and hammered him with his fists.
Traffic was light—nonexistent by eastern standards—made up mostly of Jeeps or pickup trucks, the latter with a dog pacing the back bed in perfect balance.
I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, co-operate with, and do the bidding of those far away, and without whom the latter would be harmless.
As soon as Prince Andrew began to demonstrate the defects of the latter and the merits of his own plan, Prince Dolgorukov ceased to listen to him and gazed absent-mindedly not at the map, but at Prince Andrew's face.
Sulphur is of an oily and fiery nature; in combination with salt by its fiery nature it arouses a desire in the latter by means of which it attracts mercury, seizes it, holds it, and in combination produces other bodies.
On reaching Petersburg he inquired for Kuragin but the latter had already left the city.
Being the softy that he is, he chose the latter.
He was armed with a musketoon (which he carried rather as a joke), a pike and an ax, which latter he used as a wolf uses its teeth, with equal ease picking fleas out of its fur or crunching thick bones.
This latter family contains the great majority of the order.
In the latter case they are the earliest form of the art.
Their scores in the latter stages meant they were unable to beat the previous season's finish.
When the French officer went into the room with Pierre the latter again thought it his duty to assure him that he was not French and wished to go away, but the officer would not hear of it.
This will be composed of a conduction and a convection current, the latter due to rising or falling air currents carrying ions.
They traced the latter's death to 1771.
It struck him as a surprise that Alexander treated Bonaparte as an equal and that the latter was quite at ease with the Tsar, as if such relations with an Emperor were an everyday matter to him.
Prince Andrew went up to Pierre, and the latter noticed a new and youthful expression in his friend's face.
As to long-haired cats, there appear originally to have been two closely-allied strains, the Angora and the Persian, of which the former has been altogether replaced in western Europe by the latter.
I think it may have been the former, but a knowledge of iTunes suggests the latter.
The latter half of the 15th century Shoreham was, for the time being, ruined.
During the latter part of the Siege of Richmond, the poor suffered very much indeed.
Pierre smiled in his good-natured way as if afraid for his companion's sake that the latter might say something he would afterwards regret.
The latter, a fresh, rosy officer of the Guards, irreproachably washed, brushed, and buttoned, held his pipe in the middle of his mouth and with red lips gently inhaled the smoke, letting it escape from his handsome mouth in rings.
It was said that Prince Vasili and the old count had turned upon the Italian, but the latter had produced such letters from the unfortunate deceased that they had immediately let the matter drop.
We both know it's the latter.
But this latter term of office was destined to be even shorter than his former one had been.
The diurnal variation in summer at the latter station is shown graphically in the top curve of fig.
For this latter purpose he had chosen as his thesis the constitution of the free Lombard cities in the middle ages, the province in which he was destined to do most for the scientific study of history.
It is remarkable that he gives the same pecuniary bequests to Winchester and New Colleges as to his own college of Magdalen, but the latter he made residuary devisee of all his lands.
Neither the tunny nor the coral fishery is carried on by the Sardinians themselves, who are not sailors by nature; the former is in the hands of Genoese and the latter of Neapolitans.
The latter seen from a distance resembles a medieval castle crowning a hill-top.
In the continual struggles between Pisa and Genoa some of these princes took the side of the latter.
While his wife's influence could not increase the latter, it was successfully exerted to foment and embitter the former.
He succeeded his grandfather Leotychides upon the banishment of the latter, his father having already died.
During the latter Sassanids it is seldom mentioned, and when the Arabs came to Khorasan (641-642) it was of so little importance that, as Tabari relates, it did not even have a garrison.
Bonif ace tried to induce King Charles to break the treaty, but the latter was only too anxious for peace, and finally in May 1303 the pope ratified it, Frederick agreeing to pay him a tribute.
In 1815 he commanded the Dutch and Belgian contingents, and won high commendations for his courage and conduct at the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo, at the latter of which he was wounded.