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afterword

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɑːf.tə.wɜːd/
  • General-American: /ˈæf.tɚˌwɝd/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.

1

noun

Meaning 1

an epilogue.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a postscript.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

an appendix.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: to a book

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From after- + word. Compare foreword.

Across languages

Translations

32 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: خَاتِمَة (ḵātima) — epilogue
  • Belarusian: паслясло́ўе (pasljaslówje) — epilogue
  • Belarusian: пасьлясло́ўе (pasʹljaslówje) — epilogue
  • Bulgarian: послесло́в (posleslóv) — epilogue
  • Chinese Mandarin: 後記 /后记 (hòujì) — epilogue
  • Chinese Mandarin: 跋 (bá) — epilogue
  • Chinese Mandarin: 跋文 (báwén) — epilogue
  • Czech: doslov — epilogue
  • Danish: efterord — epilogue
  • Esperanto: postparolo — epilogue
  • Finnish: jälkipuhe — epilogue
  • French: postface — epilogue
  • German: Nachwort — epilogue
  • Italian: epilogo — epilogue
  • Japanese: 後書き (atogaki) — epilogue
  • Japanese: 跋文 (batsubun) — epilogue
  • Korean: 발문 (balmun) — epilogue
  • Māori: turuki — epilogue
  • Māori: turukitanga — epilogue
  • Norwegian Bokmål: etterord — epilogue
  • Polish: posłowie — epilogue
  • Portuguese: posfácio — epilogue
  • Romanian: epilog — epilogue
  • Romanian: postfață — epilogue
  • Russian: послесло́вие (posleslóvije) — epilogue
  • Serbo-Croatian: по̏гово̄р — epilogue
  • Serbo-Croatian: pȍgovōr — epilogue
  • Swedish: efterord — epilogue
  • Turkish: bağlak — epilogue
  • Turkish: son söz — epilogue
  • Turkish: epilog — epilogue
  • Ukrainian: післямо́ва (pisljamóva) — epilogue
Real reading context

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