Meaning of latter-day In English

• 0 used to refer to a person or thing that is similar to someone or something that existed in the past:

  • the evil actions of a latter-day Caligula

• 1 being a new or recent form of a person or thing from the past:

  • He acts like a latter-day cowboy armed with ideas.

  • To many journalists, his stand against the newspaper made him a latter-day hero.