Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- After one's death; especially, after an author's death.
Wiktionary
- adv. after death
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a posthumous manner; after one's decease.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. after death
Examples
“My father was given his title posthumously, you know.”
“When I wrote of Stalin victims being “posthumously rehabilitated,” the word posthumously was excised.”
“LUDDEN: And posthumously, is that a possibility or no?”
“A comparable book presented posthumously is called a Gedenkschrift memorial publication.”
“Lt.Col. Evert, promoted posthumously, is one of 1,992 unaccounted - for US military personnel who went missing in action here, in Laos, and in Cambodia.”
“He was promoted to Captain posthumously and buried at sea from USS Ranger, 4”
“The fourth performer to be honoured last year was Heath Ledger, who won the 'Best Supporting Actor' title posthumously for his role in The Dark Knight.”
“That winter, Joplin's record label posthumously released her last album,”
“a title posthumously awarded to the Montreal Expos by many - was cancelled.”
“Although Livia had been called Augusta after her husband’s death and Antonia had been awarded the title posthumously, no woman before Agrippina had received it while she was the consort of the reigning emperor and, for good measure, the mother of the likely emperor-in-waiting.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘posthumously’.
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SPOR - Olympic glossary
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2nd part
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Strange words I come across every now and then.
neornithe, oriel, vitreous, zenith, saunter, ebb, vacillation, arbitrary, lull, nibble, knead, parched and 5 more...
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The New Yorker
prejudice, ignominious, quintessence, disparity, vanguard, repudiated, eclectic, dredge, taxonomy, pugnacious, surreptitiously, pudgy and 113 more...
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artoparts's Words
illation, finite, edify, abide, abrade, vouch, amiss, vociferate, perusing, techantiquery, rigamarole, holon and 615 more...
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Valse's Words
fastidious, fervent, bellicose, personification, onomatopoeia, burly, concomitant, tempura, serendipity, pecuniary, foment, chum and 418 more...
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jamaicangirl's Words
zygophyllaceous, spurious, sassenach, gobsmacked, mollycoddle, balderdash, tamarind, posthumously, ostracize, turpentine, asafoetida, idiosyncratic and 40 more...
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tlynne2002's Words
colloquialism, credulity, regina, posthumously, plethora, loquacious, verbose, codicil, ancillary, hagridden, sirius, regulus and 50 more...
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Personally Unpronounceable
thus, tentatively, bagel, clinton, farcical, gerund, franchised, condescension, entendre, posthumously, swatch, swathe and 10 more...
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List A
sorority, tantalize, untimely, deem, to wit, pliable, deteriorate, fortnight, Immaculate, susurration, bushed, stray and 56 more...
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Tom Slowies
Weeeelllllll, tom swifties really but I don't think of them very often. There are zillions out there in internet land so I'm looking for fresh, really awful ones :-)
endogamously, barked, inferred, philosophically, magnanimously, carmine, murmured, judiciously, disgustedly, deduced, uttered, posthumously and 15 more...
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OrbitalCombustion's Words
nepenthe, phrontistery, peregrination, pervicacious, sinistrality, phallogocentric, prolixity, leptokurtic, ineffable, haecceity, lucubration, vicissitudes and 1026 more...
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andyinabox's Words
albatross, box, vertical, errata, colophon, exacerbate, punitive, ecumenical, intimacy, typography, pander, posthumously and 22 more...
Tweets
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Prolagus I love it! Nov 22, 2008
bilby "That chick pea dip was delicious," said Tom posthumously. Nov 22, 2008
andrew.simone Etymoline for posthumous gives you your answer. Jan 6, 2007
andyinabox Interesting ... nearly all of the definitions of this word list it as "after death", with mortality playing an important role in the definition. I always though that it simply meant "after the fact," which would still apply to "after death" but is not exclusively related to death. Anybody else use it this way? Dec 12, 2006