aftertime

noun
/ˈɑːf.tə.taɪm/UK

Etymology

From after- + time.

  1. derived from *deh₂y-
  2. derived from *deh₂imō
  3. inherited from *tīmô
  4. inherited from *tīmō
  5. inherited from tīma — “time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity
  6. inherited from tyme
  7. prefixed as aftertime — “after + time

Definitions

  1. A later time

    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 […]
    • mystical states seem [...] full of significance and importance, all inarticulate though they remain; and as a rule they carry with them a curious sense of authority for after-time.
  2. The process in which a harmony singer or background singer repeats a line or a series of…

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for aftertime. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA