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afterhaps

afterhaps noun: subsequent happenings.

Noun

afterhaps pl (plural only)

  1. (nonce-word, plural, plural-only) subsequent happenings.
    • But in my triumph I lost sight1898, Thomas Hardy, 'The Ivy-Wife' in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, Harper & Brothers (1899), page 139

Origin of afterhaps

From after- + haps.

Questions about afterhaps

What does afterhaps mean?
Afterhaps means subsequent happenings.
What part of speech is afterhaps?
Afterhaps is a noun.

Words near afterhaps in the dictionary

  1. afterguard
  2. afterguards
  3. afterguardsman
  4. afterguardsmen
  5. afterhand
  6. afterhaps
  7. afterheat
  8. afterheats
  9. afterhind
  10. afterhours
  11. afterhyperpolarisation

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