afterwards
AdverbUS[af-ter-werdz]/ˈæftɚwɚdz/3 syllables
Open English WordNet
Adverb (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
- Dutch
- achteraf
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
- Finnish
- jälkeenpäin
- 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