Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The latter mowing; aftermath.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The latter, or second, mowing; the aftermath.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun literally The
latter (i.e. second)mowing , a second crop ofgrass grown after the first was harvested - noun figuratively The later
result (s),consequence (s), furtherdevelopment (s)
Etymologies
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after (from Old English æfter "after, next, following in time", itself from Old English of "off" + the comparative suffix -ter) + math (dialectal, from Old English mæð "mowing", from the Proto-Germanic *mēþan)
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Examples
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Few if any flowers come up after the scythe has gone over, except the white clover, which almost alone shows in the aftermath, or, as country people call it, the 'lattermath.'
Round About a Great Estate Richard Jefferies 1867
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