• Latter-day

    Origin

    latter + day.

    Full definition of latter-day

    Adjective

    latter-day

    1. Modern, recent.
      • 1963, Margery Allingham, The China Governess Chapter 17, The face which emerged was not reassuring. â€¦. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
    2. 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.
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