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
   • Toward morning, while the old man sat exhausted and asleep in his chair where he had been sitting before his books as one who watches by his beloved dead and prints the features on his memory for a solace in the aftertime of empty desolation, his daughter sprang into the room and gently woke him...1878, Mark (Samuel Clemens) Twain, A Tramp Abroad
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.