AFTERWARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does afterward mean? 

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

1. happening at a time subsequent to a reference time

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFTERWARD (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

 Context examples 

Hack-work and income first, masterpieces afterward.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I confess, I wanted the coffee badly; and I learned, not long afterward, that the berry was likewise a little weakness of Maud’s.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Three weeks afterward the man lay in a bunk on the whale-ship Bedford, and with tears streaming down his wasted cheeks told who he was and what he had undergone.

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

People who survive a major heart attack often do better in the years afterward if they're mildly obese.

(Mildly Obese Fare Better after Major Heart Attack, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The authors predict that the current solar cycle, Solar Cycle 24, will end in the first half of 2020, kicking off Solar Cycle 25 shortly afterward.

('Terminators' on the sun trigger plasma tsunamis, start of new solar cycles, National Science Foundation)

Temperatures reached a maximum during the mid-Holocene some 7,000 to 5,000 years ago and decreased afterward toward the Little Ice Age, 150 years ago.

(Ice cave in Transylvania yields window into region's past, NSF)

Afterward, it will make its way to lower orbits.

(Dawn Glimpses Ceres' North Pole, NASA)

However, you may feel tired for a few months afterward.

(Infectious Mononucleosis, NIH)

Shortly afterward, your baby is born.

(Childbirth, Dept. of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health)

Two weeks afterward, the mice lacking FOXO3 continued to have severe hearing loss, but the normal mice seemed to mostly recover their hearing.

(Protein involved in hearing loss recovery, NIH)