Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A message appended at the end of a letter after the writer's signature.
- n. Additional information appended to the manuscript, as of a book or article.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An addition made to a written or printed composition as an afterthought, or to state something that has been omitted. A supplement or appendix, as to a book or newspaper.
- n. More commonly, a paragraph added to a letter which has already been concluded and signed by the writer.
- n. Abbreviated P. S.
Wiktionary
- n. countable An addendum to a letter, added after the author’s signature.
- n. countable An addition to a story, play, etc.
- v. To extend (a letter etc.) with additional remarks.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A paragraph added to a letter after it is concluded and signed by the writer; an addition made to a book or composition after the main body of the work has been finished, containing something omitted, or something new occurring to the writer.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a note appended to a letter after the signature
- n. textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end
Etymologies
- post- + script (Wiktionary)
- Medieval Latin *postscrīptum, from neuter past participle of Latin postscrībere, to write after : post-, post- + scrībere, to write. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Eisner's introduction and postscript are the perfect frames for this remix story: in the intro, he talks about his naive use of black stereotypes in his 1950s comic The Spirit, while the postscript is an accessible but learned discussion of the stereotyping that Dickens fell prey to.”
“The interpolated chapters about the paper's past aren't very interesting; the final entry ends with a ghastly shock; and the postscript is too cute.”
The Imperfectionists: Summary and book reviews of The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman.
“[Return to the letter] 9 This postscript is written up the left margin of MS p. 1.”
“[Return to the letter] 7 This postscript is written upside down above the salutation.”
“It was signed yours truly guiltily and added the postscript, the code words for me will be bind them, torture them, kill them, BTK.”
“One postscript from a week ago: Before the Hoosiers left Rupp Arena, a surprise visitor suddenly appeared on their bus.”
USATODAY.com - Fife learns to appreciate Indiana expectations
“(They say a woman's postscript is always the most important thing.)”
“# posted by James Graham (Quaequam Blog!): 20 August, 2008 01: 10 quaequam postscript is much appreciated, particularly as I live in a conurbation with two universities, one oldish with (these days) lots of rich kids and the other an upstart with lots of OK kids.”
“It should be said, in postscript, that Mightygodking thinks this is all still just eleven-dimensional chess, andI’ll admit that if that’s the thinking I can almost buy it.”
“Yesterday, I wrote an editor's postscript, which is actually an excerpt from A Long Way To Morning, one of Sarah Crowe's novels.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘postscript’.
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Five Consecutive Consonants
A list of words containing five consecutive consonants
I do not include words containing "y" as part of the 5-letter string, since that letter invariably functions as a vowel, as in rhythm. <...heartstricken, heartstruck, wellspring, offspring, yachtsman, worthwhile, backstretch, backstroke, downstream, downstroke, breaststroke, birthstone and 188 more...
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select words
luminous, radiant, malicious, zeal, ojalá, voluptuary, rubbish, purlicue, consarnit, upstart, precis, robinsonade and 66 more...
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post-
after in time; following; later
postgraduate, postaxial, postscript, postdoctorate, postclassical, postdate, postcard, post-traumatic, postdoc, posterity, posthumous, postmark and 4 more...
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Consecutive Consonants
borscht, worthwhile, bronkhurstspruit, latchstring, hirschsprung's di..., backstroke, birthplace, birthstone, breaststroke, corkscrew, downstream, erstwhile and 26 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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cutting words
sarcasm, sarx, sarcoptic, syssarcosis, shrew, shrewd, screed, scred, shroud, scroll, scrod, scrutiny and 326 more...
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ginnylev's Words
neuroplasticity, repudiate, scintilla, ruminate, tautology, ombudsman, exigent, filibuster, grace, ambidextrous, amends, disclosure and 623 more...
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words
craven, perennial, incumbent, infraction, truancy, foreboding, missgiving, understudy, upkeep, withdrawal, retreat, underscore and 95 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, P
pellucid, pertain, pampas, prate, pinecone, philistine, pantocrator, papaverine, postmeridian, potlatch, pharology, pinniped and 622 more...
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Going Postal
Words that contain the letters "post" in that order, etymology not important.
post, postal, riposte, post up, imposter, posterity, posterior, postpartum, postnasal, dumb as a post, posthole, posthole digger and 37 more...
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