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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
afterwards
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
happen
▪ What happened afterwards was stranger still, and equally disgusting.
▪ M Rocard is more hopeful about what could happen afterwards.
▪ Making a decision makes you responsible for what happens afterwards.
▪ The woman whose smear is classified as positive will not get to choose what happens afterwards.
▪ Then - what happened afterwards: she panics, everyone says.
▪ What happens afterwards is variable both from woman to woman and from birth to birth.
▪ It's what happens afterwards that really matters.
say
▪ Ludens said afterwards that it was a sound of protest at this rough handling.
▪ Mr James said afterwards that this was the worst mistake he made.
▪ Everyone said afterwards it was a miracle that more people hadn't been killed or injured.
▪ Doctors said afterwards the overdose was potentially life threatening.
▪ He said afterwards that he would consult his advisers before deciding his next action.
▪ He said afterwards that he thought the explanations he had given regarding the crisis had satisfied the King.
▪ Borg said afterwards that he and Lloyd were just getting the feel of the game when they lost it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A couple of years afterwards I bumped into her in a supermarket.
▪ His wife fell ill in June and died soon afterwards.
▪ The operation was rather painful, but I felt a lot better afterwards.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it was all too late, and Wakeling quit soon afterwards.
▪ For a while my wife and I were helpless with laughter, but trying to clean up afterwards taught us a lesson!
▪ I remember the blood on the grass when I came out afterwards.
▪ Immediately afterwards they had a grand Field Day.
▪ In contrast, Ellis showed great form until the dismissal which he said afterwards amazed him.
▪ Other members of their families were upstairs dancing, and afterwards they all walked home in a group.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Afterwards

Afterwards \Aft"er*wards\, Afterward \Aft"er*ward\, adv. [AS. [ae]fteweard, a., behind. See Aft, and -ward (suffix). The final s in afterwards is adverbial, orig. a genitive ending.] At a later or succeeding time.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
afterwards

c.1300, from afterward (q.v.) + adverbial genitive -s; originally a Northern form.

Wiktionary
afterwards

adv. (context temporal location English) At a later or succeeding time.

WordNet
afterwards

adv. happening at a time subsequent to a reference time; "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" [syn: subsequently, later, afterward, after, later on]

Wikipedia
Afterwards

Afterwards is a 2008 English-language psychological thriller film directed by Gilles Bourdos and starring Romain Duris, John Malkovich and Evangeline Lilly. Based on Guillaume Musso's novel Et après..., the story tells of a workaholic lawyer who is told by a self-proclaimed visionary that he must try to prevent his imminent death. The film was shot in New York City, Montreal and various New Mexico locations over June to July 2007, and had a French release in January 2009.

Afterwards (1928 film)

Afterwards is a 1928 British silent drama film directed by Lawson Butt and starring Marjorie Hume, Julie Suedo and Joseph R. Tozer. It was made at Bushey Studios, and based on a novel by Kathlyn Rhodes.

Usage examples of "afterwards".

He asked, what officers would risk this event if the rioters themselves, or their abettors, were afterwards to sit as their judges?

For it says there: He who has been involved in one kind or sect of heresy, or has erred in one article of the faith or sacrament of the Church, and has afterwards specifically and generally abjured his heresy: if thereafter he follows another kind or sect of heresy, or errs in another article or sacrament of the Church, it is our will that he be judged a backslider.

These probably sink down besmeared with the secretion and rest on the small sessile glands, which, if we may judge by the analogy of Drosophyllum, then pour forth their secretion and afterwards absorb the digested matter.

A plant of Drosera, with the edges of its leaves curled inwards, so as to form a temporary stomach, with the glands of the closely inflected tentacles pouring forth their acid secretion, which dissolves animal matter, afterwards to be absorbed, may be said to feed like an animal.

The several substances, which are completely dissolved by the secretion, and which are afterwards absorbed by the glands, affect the leaves rather differently.

Not long afterwards, they repeated the experiment, this time by persuading their mother and father to watch the episodes of the television serial Brookside which dealt with a sexually abusive father who was buried under the patio.

I did not dare to light my lamp before this creature, and as night drew on he decided on accepting some bread and Cyprus wine, and he was afterwards obliged to do as best he could with my mattress, which was now the common bed of all new-comers.

Carthage was condemned to pay within the term of fifty years, were a slight acknowledgment of the superiority of Rome, and cannot bear the least proportion with the taxes afterwards raised both on the lands and on the persons of the inhabitants, when the fertile coast of Africa was reduced into a province.

I lost my trouble and my time, for I did not become acquainted with the shore till the octave of Christmas, and with the small door six months afterwards.

And, lest the expense or trouble of a journey to court should discourage suitors, and make them acquiesce in the decision of the inferior judicatures, itinerant judges were afterwards established, who made their circuits throughout the kingdom, and tried all causes that were brought before them.

Seven or eight days afterwards, Paterno told me that the actress had related the affair to him exactly in the same words which I had used, and she had added that, if I had ceased my visits, it was only because I was afraid of her taking me at my word in case I should renew my proposal.

Italy, and afterwards settled in England, where he met with the most favourable reception, and resided above half a century, universally admired for his stupendous genius in the sublime parts of musical composition.

Orange was hailed with approbation and delight by the Catholic leaders, those promoted by Adrets excited such a storm of indignation, among the Huguenots of all classes, that he shortly afterwards went over to the other side, and was found fighting against the party he had disgraced.

The character of this movement will more fully appear when noticing the debates in parliament which afterwards took place on the subject: it is here only necessary to say, that the ostensible and real objects of the agitators were very different.

John Brown was elected alderman of Farringdon Within shortly afterwards, but he was discharged by the Common Council, and the aldermanry was subsequently filled by John Hardy being translated to it from Aldersgate Ward.