afterward

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afterward

at a later or subsequent time: We attended the meeting and afterward we went to dinner.

Not to be confused with:

afterword – a concluding section, commentary, etc. as of a book: The author’s widow wrote the afterword.

af·ter·ward

(ăf′tər-wərd) also af·ter·wards (-wərdz)

adv.

At a later time; subsequently.

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af•ter•ward

(ˈæf tər wərd, ˈɑf-)

also af′ter•wards,

adv.

at a later time; subsequently.

[before 1000; Old English æfterweard]

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Adv.

afterward - happening at a time subsequent to a reference time; "he apologized subsequently"; "he's going to the store but he'll be back here later"; "it didn't happen until afterward"; "two hours after that"

after, afterwards, later, later on, subsequently

afterward

adverb

At a subsequent time:

after, afterwards, later, latterly, next, subsequently, ulteriorly.

Idioms: after a while, by and by, later on.

Translations

nachher

ensuite

kasneje

afterward

[ˈɑːftəwəd] afterwards [ˈɑːftəwədz] (esp Brit) ADV → después, más tarde
afterward we all helped with the washing up → después or luego or más tarde todos ayudamos a fregar los platos
I realized afterward that he was right → después or luego me di cuenta de que él tenía razón
immediately afterward → inmediatamente después, acto seguido
long afterward → mucho tiempo después
shortly or soon afterward → poco después, al poco rato
I didn't remember until afterward → no lo recordé hasta después or hasta más tarde

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For ten long years afterward I never again met with my little Mary; I never even heard whether she had lived to grow to womanhood or not.

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Excessive honours are also a cause of sedition when one person or more are greater than the state and the power of the government can permit; for then a monarchy or a dynasty is usually established: on which account the ostracism was introduced in some places, as at Argos and Athens: though it is better to guard against such excesses in the founding of a state, than when they have been permitted to take place, to correct them afterward. Those who have been guilty of crimes will be the cause of sedition, through fear of punishment; as will those also who expect an injury, that they may prevent it; as was the case at Rhodes, when the nobles conspired against the people on account of the decrees they expected would pass against them.

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We were regularly christened, but afterward, in the very act of tattooing us with small distinguishing marks, the operator lost his reckoning; and although I bear upon my forearm a small "H" and he bore a "J," it is by no means certain that the letters ought not to have been transposed.

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Eliot, in company with three others, whose names are not mentioned, having implored the divine blessing on the undertaking, made his first visit to the Indians on the 28th of October, 1646 at a place afterwards called Nonantum; a spot that has the honor of being the first on which a civilized and Christian settlement of Indians was effected within the English colonies of North America.

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This is their way of living when they are in arms, but afterwards when they settle at home they breed up their children.

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Remember there is One from whom you can conceal nothing, and before whose tribunal falshood will only aggravate your guilt." "Indeed, sir," says she, "I am not his mother; nor would I now think myself so for the world." "I know your reason," said Allworthy, "and shall rejoice as much as you to find it otherwise; yet you must remember, you yourself confest it before me." "So far what I confest," said she, "was true, that these hands conveyed the infant to your bed; conveyed it thither at the command of its mother; at her commands I afterwards owned it, and thought myself, by her generosity, nobly rewarded, both for my secrecy and my shame." "Who could this woman be?" said Allworthy.

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He remembered how his brother, while at the university, and for a year afterwards, had, in spite of the jeers of his companions, lived like a monk, strictly observing all religious rites, services, and fasts, and avoiding every sort of pleasure, especially women.

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"Sir," said Johnson afterwards, "It was a love-marriage on both sides." And there can be no doubt that Samuel loved his wife devotedly while she lived, and treasured her memory tenderly after her death.

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This duke entered the Romagna with auxiliaries, taking there only French soldiers, and with them he captured Imola and Forli; but afterwards, such forces not appearing to him reliable, he turned to mercenaries, discerning less danger in them, and enlisted the Orsini and Vitelli; whom presently, on handling and finding them doubtful, unfaithful, and dangerous, he destroyed and turned to his own men.

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Being out with a party shortly afterwards, he grew silent and gloomy, and lagged behind the rest as if he wished to leave them.

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Then, to raise money to reach England, I had to borrow from a man named Da Souza, and afterwards, in London, to start the Company, I had to make him my partner in the profits of the concession.

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I morbidly represented to myself that if Joe knew it, I never afterwards could see him at the fireside feeling his fair whisker, without thinking that he was meditating on it.

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