AFTER (after)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: after   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does after mean? 

• AFTER (adjective)
  The adjective AFTER has 1 sense:

1. located farther aft

  Familiarity information: AFTER used as an adjective is very rare.

• AFTER (adverb)
  The adverb AFTER has 2 senses:

1. happening at a time subsequent to a reference time

2. behind or in the rear

  Familiarity information: AFTER used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFTER (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Located farther aft

Similar:

aft ((nautical, aeronautical) situated at or toward the stern or tail)

• AFTER (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Happening at a time subsequent to a reference time

Synonyms:

after; afterward; afterwards; later; later on; subsequently

Context example:

two hours after that

Sense 2

Meaning:

Behind or in the rear

Context example:

and Jill came tumbling after

 Context examples 

After he had been through the grammar repeatedly, he took up the dictionary and added twenty words a day to his vocabulary.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The style is very plain and simple; and the only fault I find is, that the author, after the manner of travellers, is a little too circumstantial.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I was a bit staggered at this, for I had imagined it was simply a new dress or something of the kind that she was after.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She reached down and picked up the shoes, and after shaking the dust out of them handed them to Dorothy.

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

This is a friendly new moon, so I feel that after this new moon appears, you will see an influx of income.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Haythorne went out again after more wood.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The landlady informed me that he had left the house shortly after eight o’clock in the morning.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the cook was after me, shouting through the lee galley door: ’Ere, you! Don’t tyke all night about it! Where’s the pot? Lost overboard?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

After that I determined to lie in wait, so I got out my revolver and I sat up in my study, which overlooks the lawn and garden.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ay, it must be that; the ghost of some old sin, the cancer of some concealed disgrace: punishment coming, pede claudo, years after memory has forgotten and self-love condoned the fault.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)