latter-day

adj
/ˈlætə(ɹ)deɪ/UK/ˈlæt̬əɹ deɪ/US

Etymology

From latter (“close or closer to the present time”) + day.

  1. inherited from *dʰegʷʰ- — “to burn
  2. inherited from *dagaz — “day
  3. inherited from *dag
  4. inherited from dæġ
  5. inherited from day
  6. compounded as latter-day — “latter + day

Definitions

  1. Modern, recent.

    • He thinks of himself as a latter-day knight errant, out on a quest fighting dragons. It’s not very practical, but it is romantic.
  2. Of or relating to the last days or end times in various eschatologies.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at latter-day. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at latter-day. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at latter-day

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA