Aftertime
//ˈɑːf.tə.taɪm// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A later time; the future.
"Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood […]"
- 2 The process in which a harmony singer or background singer repeats a line or a series of words in a song separately after the lead singer rather than singing it in unison with the lead singer; prominent in country music and Southern gospel.
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More examples"Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood […]"
Etymology
From after- + time.
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