After
Next; later in time; subsequent; succeeding; as, an after period of life.
Hinder; nearer the rear.
To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway.
Behind in place; as, men in line one after another.
Below in rank; next to in order.
Later in time; subsequent; as, after supper, after three days. It often precedes a clause. Formerly that was interposed between it and the clause.
Subsequent to and in consequence of; as, after what you have said, I shall be careful.
Subsequent to and notwithstanding; as, after all our advice, you took that course.
Moving toward from behind; following, in search of; in pursuit of.
Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to; as, to look after workmen; to inquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness.
In imitation of; in conformity with; after the manner of; as, to make a thing after a model; a picture after Rubens; the boy takes after his father.
According to; in accordance with; in conformity with the nature of; as, he acted after his kind.
According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting.
Subsequently in time or place; behind; afterward; as, he follows after.
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After Quotations
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Marilyn Monroe
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
Winston Churchill
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
Winston Churchill
Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
Winston Churchill
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
Winston Churchill
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
After Translations
after in Afrikaans is na, agter, nadat, oor
after in Danish is efter
after in Dutch is achter
after in German is nachdem, hinter, nach, nach
after in Latin is praeter, postquam, secundum, secundum, post
after in Norwegian is etter, bak
after in Swedish is efter
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