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af·ter·math    Audio Help   [af-ter-math, ahf-] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.something that results or follows from an event, esp. one of a disastrous or unfortunate nature; consequence: the aftermath of war; the aftermath of the flood.
2.a new growth of grass following one or more mowings, which may be grazed, mowed, or plowed under.

[Origin: 1515–25; after + math a mowing, OE mǣth; c. OHG mād (G Mahd); akin to mow1]

1. outcome, result, upshot.
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af·ter·math    Audio Help   (āf'tər-māth')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A consequence, especially of a disaster or misfortune: famine as an aftermath of drought.
  2. A period of time following a disastrous event: in the aftermath of war.
  3. A second growth or crop in the same season, as of grass after mowing.


[after + obsolete math, mowing (from Old English mǣth; see mē-4 in Indo-European roots).]

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aftermath 
1523, originally a second crop of grass grown after the first had been harvested. The -math is dialectal, from O.E. mæð "mowing," from P.Gmc. *mæthan. Figurative sense is from mid-17c.

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aftermath

noun
1. the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event); "the aftermath of war"; "in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured" 
2. the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual [syn: consequence

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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version) - Cite This Source - Share This
ˈaftermath [-mӕθ] noun
the situation etc resulting from an important, especially unpleasant, event
Example: The country is still suffering from the aftermath of the war.
Arabic: عَواقِب، آثَار (الحرب)
Chinese (Simplified): 后果
Chinese (Traditional): 後果
Czech: následky
Danish: følge; eftervirkning
Dutch: nasleep
Estonian: tagajärg
Finnish: jälkivaikutus
French: suites
German: Nachwirkungen
Greek: επακόλουθο
Hungarian: következmény
Icelandic: eftirköst, afleiðingar
Indonesian: dampak, ekor, akibat
Italian: conseguenza
Japanese: 余波
Korean: 결과, 여파
Latvian: atskaņas; sekas
Lithuanian: pasekmė
Norwegian: ettervirkning, følge
Polish: następstwa
Portuguese (Brazil): seqüela
Portuguese (Portugal): rescaldo
Romanian: urmare, consecinţă
Russian: последствие
Slovak: následky
Slovenian: posledice
Spanish: secuelas
Swedish: efterdyningar, följder
Turkish: sonrası
See also: after, after all, be after, afterthought, afterwards

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version), © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd.

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