post-
UK/pəʊst/US/poʊst/
post- prefix: after; later.
Prefix
post-
- after; later.
- Representatives of the Syrian National Council and the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change in Syria signed an agreement late Friday in Cairo for a transition in a post-Assad era, the NCB said on its Facebook page.2011 December 31, “Syrian opposition group: More than 5,800 died in 2011”, in CNN, archived from the original on 03 Jul 2018
- The main prefixes in the controlled language include “un-“, “plus-“, “doubleplus-“, “ante-” and “post-“.2020 August 8, Zui, “Controlled Languages — Newspeak”, in The Language Closet, archived from the original on 16 May 2022
- Synonyms:
- after-
- behind.
- Synonyms:
- retro-
post- meaning in Malayalam and Vietnamese
post- in Malayalam
- പിന്നീട്
post- in Vietnamese
- later
- hậu
Synonyms of post-
Antonyms
Origin of post-
From Latin post (“after, behind”). Cognate with Spanish pues (“well, so, then”)
Words formed from post-
- postaxial
- postbellum
- post-boost phase
- postclassical
- postcoital
- postcolonial
- postconsumer
- postcranial
- postdate
- postdiluvian
- postdoc
- postdoctoral
- postembryonic
- post-Enlightenment
- postexilic
- postfix
- postfrontal
- postganglionic
- postgasm
- postglacial
- postgraduate
- posthaste
- posthole
- posthumous
- posthypnotic suggestion
- postidentity
- postimpressionism
- postindustrial
- postlux
- postmenopausal
- postmenstrual
- postmeridian
- postmillenarian
- postmillenarianism
- postmillennial
- postmillennialism
- postmodern
- postmortem
- postnasal
- post-nasal drip
- postnatal
- postnuptial
- post-op
- postoperative
- postorbital
- postpartum
- post-polio syndrome
- postpone
- postpose
- postposition
- postpositive
- postprandial
- postproduction
- postscript
- postseason
- postsecular
- poststructuralism
- postsynaptic
- posttenebras
- posttest
Questions about post-
- What does post- mean?
- Post- means after; later.
- What is post- in Malayalam?
- Post- in Malayalam is പിന്നീട്. See Post- meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is post-?
- Post- is a prefix.
- How do you pronounce post-?
- Post- is pronounced /poʊst/ (US).
Words near post- in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: post- (page history and authors); post- (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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