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English
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Etymology
From Middle English, from Old English æfter, from Proto-Germanic *after (“more aft, further behind”), from Proto-Indo-European *apotero (“further behind, further away”), comparative form of *apo- (“off, behind”); see also Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo (“off, away”). Cognate with North Frisian efter (“after, behind”), Dutch/Low German achter (“behind”), German After (“anus”), Old Norse eptir (Danish & Swedish efter, “after”), Norwegian etter (“after”). The Proto-Indo-European is the source of apo- (“away, without”), from Ancient Greek ἀπό (apo); comparative is also the source of Ancient Greek ἀπωτέρω (apōterō).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ˈɑːf.tə(ɹ)/, /ˈæf.tə(ɹ)/, SAMPA: /"A:f.t@(r\)/, /"{f.t@(r\)/
- (US) IPA: /ˈæf.tɚ/, SAMPA: /"{ft@`(\r)/
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Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: af‧ter
Adverb
after (not comparable)
- Behind; later in time; following.
- They lived happily ever after.
- I left the room, and the dog bounded after.
Derived terms
terms derived from after (adverb)Preposition
after
- subsequently to; following in time; later than.
- We had a few beers after the game.
- The time is quarter after eight.
- The Cold War began shortly after the Second World War
- behind
- he will leave a trail of destruction after him
- in pursuit of, seeking
- he's after a job
- run after him
- inquire after her health
- in allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing
- we named him after his grandfather
- a painting after Leonardo da Vinci
- next in importance or rank
- The princess is next in line to the throne after the prince.
- as a result of
- After your bad behaviour, you will be punished.
- in spite of
- After all that has happened, he is still my friend.
- (Ireland, usually preceded by a form of be, followed by an -ing form of a verb) Used to indicate recent completion of an activity
- I was after finishing my dinner when there was a knock on the door.
- 1875, Patrick Kennedy, Evenings in the Duffrey, page 283:
- He was after walking on the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday before, all the way from the County Limerick, where his brother, Father John, has a parish; and you may believe, the poor man was tired
- 1906, Lady Gregory, “A Miracle Play”, The Shanachie, volume 1:
- Mother: Let him get away out of this now, himself and his share of songs. Look at the way he has your bib destroyed that I was after washing in the morning!
- 2004, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea[1], page 40:
- When I woke up it was black-dark and the music was after stopping. I could taste the bread I was after eating in the dream, as sweet and luscious as any I ever knew
- 2004, Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Great Milk Train Robbery:
- He asked directions to the dairy those milk cans had shown up late at. Corrigan pointed back the way he'd come and explained, “You'd have been after riding past their loading platform because they don't have their sign overlooking where the train would be after stopping.
- 2008, M. P. Shiel, The Black Box, page 45:
- "Yes. And where were you when the flood broke loose?" / "I would be most of the way to the Old House then. O'Loughlin was after running in wild to tell me he was hearing the Banshee out at The Old House, […] ."
Usage notes
- The Irish English usage example is equivalent to "I had just finished my dinner when […] .".
Derived terms
terms derived from after (preposition)
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Translations
subsequently; following in time; later than
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Conjunction
after
- Signifies that the action of the clause it starts takes place before the action of the other clause.
- I went home after we had decided to call it a day.
- 1991, Donald "Shadow" Rimgale (character), Robert DeNiro (actor), Backdraft
- So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
Translations
Signifies that the action of its clause takes place before the action of the other clauseAdjective
after
- (dated) Later; second (of two); next, following, subsequent
- 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p. 72:
- I did verily believe in my own mind, that I couldn't fight in that way at all; but my after experience convinced me that this was all a notion.
- 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
- The amends he had made in after life were lost sight of in the dramatic glare of the original act.
- 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p. 72:
- (nautical, where the frame of reference is within the ship) At or towards the stern of a ship
- The after gun is mounted aft.
- The after gun is abaft the forward gun.
Usage notes
- As shown in the examples above, the adverb in this nautical usage is aft and the related preposition is abaft.
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Spatial particles of orientation", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8
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Anagrams
Old High German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *after, whence also Old English æfter, Old Norse aptr.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈaf.ter/
Preposition
after (+ dative)
- after
- after zweim tagon
- after two days
- after zweim tagon
- according to, in
- after antreitu
- in order
- after antreitu
Adverb
after
References
- Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer
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See also
- All pages beginning with "After"
- All pages with titles containing "After"
- Arter (disambiguation), eye dialect spelling of "after"
- Afterward (disambiguation)
- Later (disambiguation)
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