LekhoriLekhoriBehind; later in time; following.
I left the room, and the dog bounded after.
Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
We had a few beers after the game.
Behind.
He will leave a trail of destruction after him.
In pursuit of, seeking.
Signifies that the action of the clause it starts takes place before the action of the other clause.
The show ends after the fat lady sings.
Later; second (of two); next, following, subsequent
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.
At or towards the stern of a ship or the rear of an aircraft.
The after gun is mounted aft.
Of before-and-after images: the one that shows the difference after a specified treatment.
In the ‘before’ shots, she’ll look like an ordinary suburban housewife; but we know she acts in community theater musicals sometimes, so the ‘afters’ will give her a glamorous starlet image, starting with a very revealing bathing suit shot.
From Middle English after, from Old English æfter, from Proto-West Germanic *aftar, from Proto-Germanic *after, *aftiri, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epoteros (“further behind, further away”), from *h₂...
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He’s after a job; run after him; inquire after her health.