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after-event

after-event is the alternative form of afterevent.

Meaning of afterevent

Noun

afterevent (plural afterevents)

  1. An event that follows something; a subsequent or later event.
    • Sometimes it may bee requisite, in respect of after-euents: as if I sweare and vowe to God, to keepe some certaine spare and so straite a diet; as (through weakenesse and infirmities after happening) I can not possiblie obserue, without apparent daunger of the losse of my life.1593, Richard Cosin, chapter 2, in An Apologie for Sundrie Proceedings by Jurisdiction Ecclesiasticall, London, page 22

Forms of after-event

pluralafter-events

Questions about after-event

What is after-event the alternative form of?
After-event is the alternative form of afterevent.

Words near after-event in the dictionary

  1. after-dinner speeches
  2. after-discovered evidence
  3. after-eatage
  4. after-effect
  5. after-effects
  6. after-event
  7. after-events
  8. after-eye
  9. after-eyed
  10. after-eyeing
  11. after-eyes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: after-event (page history and authors); afterevent (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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