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afterstory

afterstory noun: a story told after the fact; an account of events which come after a story.

Noun

afterstory (plural afterstories)

  1. A story told after the fact; an account of events which come after a story
    • Wilder's cynicism is most evident in his cop-out, boy-gets-girl ending, which seems quite capable of producing an afterstory identical to the film we have just seen.2008, Barry Keith Grant, American Cinema of the 1960s
    • The afterstory might be as telling as the uprising. Even though hundreds of thousands of people joined the protest group, only a small percentage of Facebook members ever changed their privacy settings!2010, Joshua Porter, Designing for the Social Web, eBook

Forms of afterstory

pluralafterstories
alternative formafter-story
alternative formafter story

Origin of afterstory

From after- + story.

Questions about afterstory

What does afterstory mean?
Afterstory means a story told after the fact; an account of events which come after a story.
What part of speech is afterstory?
Afterstory is a noun.
What is the plural of afterstory?
The plural of afterstory is afterstories.

Words near afterstory in the dictionary

  1. aftersmiles
  2. aftersound
  3. aftersounds
  4. afterspike
  5. afterstories
  6. afterstory
  7. afterstroke
  8. afterstrokes
  9. aftersummer
  10. aftersun
  11. afterswarm

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