posthumously
Syllables: pos·thum·ous·ly
posthumously adverb: after death.
Adverb
posthumously (not comparable)
- After death.
- In his boyhood that posthumously libelled sovereign lady, Anne, had terribly prevailed among the dwellings on this highway; […]1913, Booth Tarkington, The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 4
- Yet while Gauguin went native, taking teenage mistresses, wearing local costumes and building his own wooden hut, his ultimate purpose was to impress the art world back home. And he did, although posthumously.2003 October 14, Alan Riding, “The Colors of Paradise As Imagined by Gauguin”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- Synonyms:
- post mortem, post obitum
posthumously meaning in Hindi and Vietnamese
posthumously in Hindi
- after death
- मरणोपरांत marṇoprānt
posthumously in Vietnamese
- after death
- but see truy tặng
Synonyms of posthumously
Antonyms
Forms of posthumously
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Origin of posthumously
From posthumous + -ly.
Questions about posthumously
- What does posthumously mean?
- Posthumously means after death.
- What is posthumously in Hindi?
- Posthumously in Hindi is मरणोपरांत (marṇoprānt). See Posthumously meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is posthumously?
- Posthumously is an adverb.
Words near posthumously in the dictionary
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