Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word AFTER

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Definitions of AFTER

1. Behind; later in time; following.
2. Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
3. Behind.
4. In pursuit of, seeking.
5. In allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing.
6. Next in importance or rank.
7. As a result of.
8. In spite of.
9. Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to.
10. (Irish, Newfoundland, usually, preceded by a form of be, followed by an -ing form of a verb) Used to indicate recent completion of an activity
11. (dated) According to an author or text.
12. (obsolete) According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting.
13. Signifies that the action of the clause it starts takes place before the action of the other clause.
14. (dated) Later; second (of two); next, following, subsequent
15. (nautical, where the frame of reference is within the ship) At or towards the stern of a ship.
16. On the result of. Often used with verbs related to cleaning.

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Examples of Using AFTER in a Sentence

• After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful and two Broadway plays, Rand achieved fame with her 1943 novel The Fountainhead.
• Over 500 million people are native speakers of an Afroasiatic language, constituting the fourth-largest language family after Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and Niger–Congo.
• In the common law, an answer is the first pleading by a defendant, usually filed and served upon the plaintiff within a certain strict time limit after a civil complaint or criminal information or indictment has been served upon the defendant.
• Arabic is the third most widespread official language after English and French, one of six official languages of the United Nations, and the liturgical language of Islam.
• Although the name applies to a group of snakes, it is often used to refer only to one species, in particular, the common or green anaconda (Eunectes murinus), which is the largest snake in the world by weight, and the second longest after the reticulated python.
• Like the Uralic language family, which is named after the Ural Mountains, the group is named after the Altai mountain range in the center of Asia.
• It is radioactive and a transuranic member of the actinide series in the periodic table, located under the lanthanide element europium and was thus named after the Americas by analogy.
• The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
• Being in the mainstream continuity of the franchise, it was the character's first title, launching seven months after his introduction in the final issue of Amazing Fantasy.
• The APG IV system of 2016 places Dasypogonaceae in this order, after studies showing Dasypogonaceae as sister to Arecaceae.
• 1636 – Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recapture a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege.
• In Western Christianity, including Roman Catholicism and certain parts of Lutheranism and Anglicanism, All Souls' Day is the third day of Allhallowtide, after All Saints' Day (1 November) and All Hallows' Eve (31 October).
• The original Azerbaijan Democratic Republic's armed forces were dissolved after Azerbaijan was absorbed into the Soviet Union as the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic from 28 April 1920.
• After registering steady increases during the Soviet period, the population of Armenia declined from its peak value of 3.
• The term originated in a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, immediately after Australia's 1882 victory at The Oval, its first Test win on English soil.
• Originally described as one of the earliest ancestors of humans after they diverged from the chimpanzees, the relation of this genus to human ancestors and whether it is a hominin is now a matter of debate.
• 1081 – Alexios I Komnenos overthrows the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, and, after his troops spend three days extensively looting Constantinople, is formally crowned on April 4.
• The afterlife or life after death is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's stream of consciousness or identity continues to exist after the death of their physical body.
• The majority of Anglicans are members of national or regional ecclesiastical provinces of the international Anglican Communion, which forms the third-largest Christian communion in the world, after the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the world's largest Protestant communion.
• According to Australian literature, Cartier Island was visited by Captain Nash in 1800, and named after his ship Cartier.

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