ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Afterdays

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Afterdays is a noun meaning (archaic) Days that follow; a later time or period; (figuratively) people in the future.

Meaning

(archaic) Days that follow; a later time or period; (figuratively) people in the future.

Example Sentences

And him the Greeks will giue, a master praise; / Verse finding him, to last all after daies.
Often in peaceful after-days was Alleyne to think of that scene of the wayside inn of Auvergne.
[…] many a rising beauty would be slighted by him in after days as bearing no comparison with Mrs. Brandon.
[…] this thwart Parliament whose moods we watch— / So insular, empiric, un-ideal— / May figure forth in sharp and salient lines / To retrospective eyes of afterdays,

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include afterage, dogdays, ereyesterday, to-day, ancientry, foretime.

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