Definition of after

"after" in the adjective sense

1. after

located farther aft

"after" in the adverb sense

1. subsequently, later, afterwards, afterward, after, later on

happening at a time subsequent to a reference time

"he apologized subsequently"

"he's going to the store but he'll be back here later"

"it didn't happen until afterward"

"two hours after that"

2. after

behind or in the rear

"and Jill came tumbling after"

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Quotations for after

Cat after kind. [ Proverb ]

After the war, aid. [ Greek Proverb ]

After me the deluge. [ Madame de Pompadour ]

After meat, mustard. [ Proverb ]

After death, the doctor. [ Proverb ]

Rest is sweet after strife. [ Lord Lytton ]

After cheese comes nothing. [ Proverb ]

After clouds, calm weather. [ Proverb ]

After Christmas comes Lent. [ Proverb ]

God sends cold after clothes. [ Proverb ]

After this leaf another grows. [ Proverb ]

After war, let us welcome peace. [ Constantine ]

It is ill angling after the net. [ Proverb ]

Tell money after your own mother. [ Proverb ]

Pleasure tastes well after service. [ Proverb ]

Once in use and ever after a custom. [ Proverb ]

Rest is good after the work is done. [ Danish Proverb ]

This world is God's world, after all. [ Charles Kingsley ]

Cast not the helve after the hatchet. [ Proverb ]

Welcome as happy tidings after fears. [ Otway ]

A calm is most welcome after a storm. [ Proverb ]

How exquisite is pleasure after pain! [ Young ]

Not worthy to carry guts after a bear. [ Proverb ]

Even the fool is wise after the event. [ Homer ]

After the house is finished, leave it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He who threatens hunts after a revenge. [ Proverb ]

Step after step the ladder is ascended. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Pride goes before, shame follows after. [ Proverb ]

Many have come to a port after a storm. [ Proverb ]

Steer not after every mariners direction. [ Proverb ]

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

No naked man is sought after to be rifled. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

And panting Time toiled after him in vain. [ Samuel Johnson ]

Praise is the best diet for us, after ail. [ Sydney Smith ]

After the close of the account; after all. [ French ]

Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. [ Cervantes ]

Wave rolling after wave in torrent rapture. [ Milton ]

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. [ George Chapman ]

Hymen comes after love, as smoke after flame. [ Chamfort ]

He hath not lived that lives not after death. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Philosophers are only men in armour after all. [ Dickens ]

He that hunts after vanity shall take vexation. [ Proverb ]

Laughter leaves us doubly serious shortly after. [ Byron ]

Common people hang more after praise than profit. [ Proverb ]

After money, ennui makes more marriages than love. [ Romainville ]

If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. [ Proverb ]

After the greatest danger is the greatest pleasure. [ Proverb ]

After dinner rest awhile; after supper walk a mile. [ Proverb ]

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after. [ Proverb ]

He that lives not well one year sorrows seven after. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Gratitude once refused can never after be recovered. [ Goldsmith ]

Slow may that day approach, and long after our time. [ Ovid ]

He that comes after sees with more eyes than his own. [ Proverb ]

When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness. [ Montesquieu ]

After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser. [ Franklin ]

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after. [ Herbert ]

The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone. [ Samuel Johnson ]

Truth, when not sought after, sometimes comes to light. [ Menander ]

One cannot be fully happy until after his sixtieth year. [ Bonstetten ]

He, that after sinning mends, recommends himself to God. [ Proverb ]

It is in vain to kick, after you have once put on fetters. [ Proverb ]

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Riches come better after poverty than poverty after riches. [ Chinese Proverb ]

The man strives after freedom, the woman after good manners. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Night or darkness is the time of rest and peace after labors. [ W. Molyneux ]

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it. [ Martial ]

Before marriage, woman is a queen; after marriage, a subject.

Ugliness, after virtue, is the best guardian of a young woman. [ Mme. de Genlis ]

Her walk was like no mortal thing, but shaped after an angel's. [ Petrarch ]

And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity. [ Antoninus ]

One knows the value of pleasure only after he has suffered pain. [ Fontanelle ]

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade. [ Byron ]

Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another. [ Manilius ]

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage. [ Bacon ]

It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after. [ William Shakespeare ]

He who sleeps all the morning may go a begging all the day after. [ Proverb ]

They left a great deal for the industry and sagacity of after ages. [ Locke ]

The horse that draws after him his halter is not altogether escaped. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Money must be sought for in the first instance; virtue after riches. [ Horace ]

He that listens after what people say of him shall never have peace. [ Proverb ]

He that would have a bad morning may walk out in a fog after a frost. [ Proverb ]

He that works after his own manner, his head aches not at the matter. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

There I'll rest, as after much turmoil a blessed soul doth in Elysium. [ William Shakespeare ]

Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set. [ Colton ]

Habits leave their impress upon the mind, even after they are given up. [ Spurgeon ]

A customary railer is the devil's bagpipe, which the world dances after. [ Proverb ]

He that is surprised with the first frost feels it all the winter after. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

After a good dinner one could forgive anybody, even one's own relations. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear. [ Lamartine ]

We often shed tears which deceive ourselves after having deceived others. [ Rochefoucauld ]

White hairs are the crests of foam which cover the sea after the tempest. [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]

Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed. [ Goldsmith ]

The animal with long ears, after having drunk, gives a kick to the bucket. [ From the Italian ]

Better one's House be too little one day, than too big all the year after. [ Proverb ]

Let youth dance: tempests of the heart arise after the repose of the limbs. [ Lemontey ]

Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature. [ Alexander Smith ]

After love friendship (when we have lived through love we begin friendship). [ Heine ]

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought. [ Balzac ]

Marriage leaps up upon the saddle, and soon after repentance upon the crupper. [ Proverb ]

Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you. [ H. W. Shaw ]

after in Scrabble®

The word after is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters after:

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after in Words With Friends™

The word after is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Word Growth involving after

Shorter words in after

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Longer words containing after

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