after
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Is after a Scrabble word?
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Definition
prep (English)
1. Subsequently to; following in time; later than.Examples: "I'm tired of picking up after you. Why can't you clean your own messes?"often
2. Subsequently to; following in time; later than.Examples: "day after day, time after time, mile after mile, beer after beer, smile after smile"
3. Subsequently to; following in time; later than.Examples: "I was after finishing my dinner when there was a knock on the door. [= I had just finished my dinner when ...]"; "He was after walking on the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday before, all the way from the County Limerick, where his brother, Father John, has a parish; and you may believe, the poor man was tired"; "Mother: Let him get away out of this now, himself and his share of songs. Look at the way he has your bib destroyed that I was after washing in the morning!"IrelandNewfoundland
4. (obsolete) According to (an author or text).obsolete
5. (obsolete) According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting.Examples: "He takes greatness of kingdoms according to bulk and currency, and not after their intrinsic value."obsolete
adj (English)
1. (dated) Later; second (of two); next, following, subsequentExamples: "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."; "The amends he had made in after life were lost sight of in the dramatic glare of the original act."; "In the old days, […] he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […] and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity."dated
2. (nautical or aeronautical, where the frame of reference is within the craft) At or towards the stern of a ship or the rear of an aircraft.Examples: "The after gun is mounted aft."; "The after gun is abaft the forward gun."; "The aircraft provided an after cabin for two radar operators."
Definition source: Wiktionary