After Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite located farther aft
  2. adverb happening at a time subsequent to a reference time
    afterwards; later; later on; subsequently; afterward.
    • he apologized subsequently
    • he's going to the store but he'll be back here later
    • it didn't happen until afterward
    • two hours after that
  3. adverb behind or in the rear
    • and Jill came tumbling after

WordNet


Definitions
  1. (with the same noun preceding and following), as, wave after wave, day after day, several or many (waves, etc.) successively.

Webster 1913