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  1. preposition Behind in place or order: Z comes after Y in the alphabet.
  2. preposition Next to or lower than in order or importance.
  3. preposition In quest or pursuit of: seek after fame; go after big money.
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  • Elissa, a clever woman and never one to back down from a challenge, cut the hide into the narrowest of strips and encircled this hill, which is called Byrsa now, after the Greek word for ox hide. —  The African Quest
  • This slightly shorter day is called the “sidereal day,” after a Latin word meaning “star,” since this is the time it takes for the Earth to rotate once relative to the stars. —  StrangeHorizons,August2002
  • The remains are thought to belong to Homo antecessor, named after the Latin word for pioneer or explorer because they are the first humans who reached Europe after a long migration from Africa. —  Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
  • The discovery was made using one of the largest optical telescopes in the World, called Subaru (named after the Japanese word for the Pleiades star cluster), located on the Island of Hawaii and owned by the National Observatory of Japan. —  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • GOSAT, nicknamed "Ibuki" after the Japanese word for "vitality," will cover those countries and also the atmosphere over seas. —  msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
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  1. Middle English, from Old English æfter; see apo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. (1) After, adverb, from Middle English after, æfter, efter, etc., from Anglo-Saxon æfter, adverb, after, afterward, back, = Old Saxon aftar, after = OFries. efter = Dutch achter = Icelandic aptr, aftr = Danish Swedish efter = Old High German aftar, after = Gothic (Moesogothic) aftra, after, again, backward, etc., = Greek ἀπωτέρω, further off, = OPers. apataram, further; all adverbs, comparative forms, from af-, ap- (= Gothic (Moesogothic) af = Anglo-Saxon and English of, preposition, q. v.), off, + comparative suffix -ter, -tar; hence after orig. meant ‘more off, further off.’ (2) After, preposition, from Middle English after, æfter, etc., from Anglo-Saxon æfter, preposition, after, behind, along, = Old Saxon aftar, after = OFries. efter = Dutch achter = Icelandic eptir, eftir = Danish Swedish efter = Old High German aftar, after, preposition; all from the adverb. (3) After, conjunction, is an elliptical use of the preposition
  2. from Middle English after, æfter, etc., adjective, merged with after, adverb, in loose comp. like after-past, etc.; from Anglo-Saxon æftera, feminine and neuter æftere, adjective, from æfter, adverb and preposition
 

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