afterwards

Adverb
US[af-ter-werdz]/ˈæftɚwɚdz/3 syllables

Open English WordNet

Adverb (1)

  1. 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”Synonyms: subsequentlylaterafterwardafterlater on
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Translations

Adverb at a later or succeeding time

Spanish
después
French
après
German
danach
Italian
dopo
Portuguese
em seguida
Turkish
sonra
Russian
после posle
Chinese
然后 ránhòu
Japanese
後で atode
22 more languages
Polish
potem
Swedish
efteråt
Greek
μετά metá
Indonesian
kemudian
Vietnamese
sau đó
Hungarian
azután
Portuguese (PT)
em seguida
Chinese (Trad.)
然後 ránhòu
Albanian
pastaj
Catalan
després
Czech
poté
Danish
senere
Esperanto
poste
Georgian
შემდეგ šemdeg
Latvian
vēlāk
Lithuanian
paskui
Norwegian
etterpå
Romanian
apoi
Scottish Gaelic
an dèidh sin
Serbo-Croatian
potom
Welsh
wedyn

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Aft′er·wards (…), Aft′er·ward (…) adverb

Origin: AS. æfteweard, a., behind. See Aft, and -ward (suffix). The final s in afterwards is adverbial, orig. a genitive ending.

At a later or succeeding time.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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