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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb At a later time; subsequently.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In later or subsequent time; subsequently.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb US subsequently to some other action

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb happening at a time subsequent to a reference time

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after +‎ -ward

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