Usually means: Following in time or sequence.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. afterwards: Merriam-Webster
  2. afterwards: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. afterwards: Collins English Dictionary
  4. afterwards: Vocabulary.com
  5. Afterwards, afterwards: Wordnik
  6. afterwards: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. afterwards: Wiktionary
  8. Afterwards, afterwards: Dictionary.com
  9. afterwards: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Afterwards: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Afterwards: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. afterwards: Rhymezone
  13. afterwards: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. afterwards: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. afterwards: FreeDictionary.org
  16. afterwards: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. afterwards: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. afterwards: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  19. afterwards: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. afterwards: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. afterwards: Encyclopedia

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▸ adverb:  (temporal location) At a later or succeeding time.

Similar:
after, later, later on, subsequently, afterword, beforehand, before, then, thereafter, shortly, more...

Opposite:
before, previously, earlier, beforehand, initially

Phrases:
shortly afterwards, come afterwards, came afterwards, happen afterwards, soon afterwards, more...

Adjectives:
first, unending, own, heavenly, occa, much, short



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Similar:
after, later, later on, subsequently, afterword, beforehand, before, then, thereafter, shortly, more...

Opposite:
before, previously, earlier, beforehand, initially

Phrases:
shortly afterwards, come afterwards, came afterwards, happen afterwards, soon afterwards, don't know what to do afterwards, afterwards effect, continuing afterwards, more...

Adjectives:
first, unending, own, heavenly, occa, much, short



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