LATELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lately mean? 

• LATELY (adverb)
  The adverb LATELY has 1 sense:

1. in the recent past

  Familiarity information: LATELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LATELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the recent past

Synonyms:

late; lately; latterly; of late; recently

Context example:

the spelling was first affected, but latterly the meaning also

 Context examples 

You have rather cast me off lately, Jo, but I've had the best of help, nevertheless.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Lately, as I used to be.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In answer to my inquiries after the use of this article, she informed me it was a covering for the altar of a new church lately erected near Gateshead.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“I shall not ride to-morrow, certainly,” said Fanny; “I have been out very often lately, and would rather stay at home. You know I am strong enough now to walk very well.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He did not know what was come to his master lately, he said, but he could hardly ever get the speech of him.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Elizabeth had been lately forming an intimacy, which she wished to see interrupted.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It seems you’ve been spending more money than usual lately.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

We are all threatened, answered the tiger, by a fierce enemy which has lately come into this forest.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Her employers had all been in excellent spirits lately, and she had never known them more cheerful and prosperous.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I escaped from them to the room where lay the body of Elizabeth, my love, my wife, so lately living, so dear, so worthy.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)