Belly  +  400025 Fri, 03 Aug 07 03:46 PM How it is different between Late and Belated? ex: a Belated birthday, late dinner Belly Joined on Mon, Feb 19 2007 Regular Member 630

	Clive  +  400032 Fri, 03 Aug 07 04:06 PM Hi, How it is different between Late and Belated? ex: a Belated birthday, late dinner We had a late dinner. The word 'late' has various meanings. You need to check your dictionary for all of them. Here are a couple. It can suggest a problem, 'after the correct or normal time'. Or it can just mean 'far into the night', eg 'we usually eat dinner late'  can mean that we usually eat dinner at 10pm. We had a belated dinner 'Lateness' was a problem with this dinner. It was not just late, it was too late.  Note that the word 'late' is used much, much more commonly than the word 'belated'. Best wishes, Clive Clive Joined on Thu, Oct 28 2004 Canada Veteran Member 29,575 El tango argentino es un pensamiento triste que se puede bailar (The tango argentino is a sad thought which can be danced) Enrique Santos Discépolo