COME AFTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does come after mean? 

• COME AFTER (verb)
  The verb COME AFTER has 2 senses:

1. come after in time, as a result

2. be the successor (of)

  Familiarity information: COME AFTER used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COME AFTER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come after in time, as a result

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

come after; follow

Context example:

A terrible tsunami followed the earthquake

Hypernyms (to "come after" is one way to...):

ensue; result (issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end)

Verb group:

follow; postdate (be later in time)

follow (be next)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be the successor (of)

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

come after; follow; succeed

Context example:

Will Charles succeed to the throne?

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come after"):

accede; enter (take on duties or office)

replace; supersede; supervene upon; supplant (take the place or move into the position of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

"His words are here on this paper, and it is for you to make a sign, thus, on the paper, so that white men to come after will know that you have heard."

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

I suppose she is still living with the old woman, waiting for me to come after her.

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

My object, Lady Bertram, is to be of use to those that come after me.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

His is the exaction of the apostle, who speaks but for Christ, when he says—Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They cursed him, and his fathers and mothers before him, and all his seed to come after him down to the remotest generation, and every hair on his body and drop of blood in his veins; and he answered curse with snarl and kept out of their reach.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Then she said, briefly, in a businesslike way: Never mind what he thinks. That will come after. At present we have two graves to dig.

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