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afterword

[ af-ter-wurd, ahf- ]

noun

  1. a concluding section, commentary, etc., as of a book, treatise, or the like; closing statement.


afterword

/ ˈɑːftəˌwɜːd /

noun

  1. an epilogue or postscript in a book, etc


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Word History and Origins

Origin of afterword1

First recorded in 1885–90; after + word

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Example Sentences

Music journalist Joel Selwin annotates, with a preface by Donovan, a foreword by Jorma Kaukonen, and an afterword by John Poppy.

And Tom Cruise pens the afterword of your book, about your aborted project At the Mountains of Madness.

“Afterword” from Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser.

This piece was adapted from a new Afterword on forgiveness, to be published in the expanded paperback edition March 3.

Gay Talese's brilliant history of morality in America was re-issued this year with a new afterword by the author.

This shall be a brief afterword, for I have little else to say.

I had not thought to add anything to them by way of an afterword.

"Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it," is the prayer's solemn afterword; but the prayer we ask is no trifle.

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