latter

About 77.96 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Near (or nearer) to the end.

   the latter part of the century

2. adjective In the past, but close (or closer) to the present time.

   In his latter years my dad became very absent-minded.

3. noun The second of aforementioned two items.

   The archaic past participle shapen is only used in misshapen, ill-shapen, and well-shapen (the latter two are much less common, though).

Similar words

later last late last mentioned second secondly secondary other subsequent thereto

Often followed by

is part was case are being to were half