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after-time

after-time is the alternative form of aftertime.

Meaning of aftertime

Noun

aftertime (plural aftertimes)

  1. (sometimes puristic) A later time; the future.
    • Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood […]1865, Lewis Carroll, chapter 12, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  2. The process in which a harmony singer or background singer repeats a line or a series of words in a song separately after the lead singer rather than singing it in unison with the lead singer; prominent in country music and Southern gospel.

Forms of after-time

pluralafter-times

Questions about after-time

What is after-time the alternative form of?
After-time is the alternative form of aftertime.

Words near after-time in the dictionary

  1. after-strokes
  2. after-taste
  3. after-tastes
  4. after-tax
  5. after-the-fact
  6. after-time
  7. after-times
  8. after-war
  9. after-wit
  10. after-wits
  11. after-work

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