"afterwave" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "after",
        "3": "wave"
      },
      "expansion": "after- + wave",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From after- + wave.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "afterwaves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "afterwave (plural afterwaves)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1801, Robert Charles Dallas (translator), The Natural History of Volcanoes by the Abbé Ordinaire, London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, Chapter 22, p. 158,\nFrom the fierce burning stream, the afterwaves keep those over which they flow, in a state of fusion:"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1866 April 28, Saturday Review, volume 21, number 548, page 490",
          "text": "Simultaneously with the lull in Germany we are beginning to hear of all these preparations [in Italy], which the lull renders comparatively unimportant. The news of them comes as a sort of afterwave of the German crisis.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918, James Sully, chapter 5, in My Life and Friends: A Psychologist’s Memories, London: T. Fisher Unwin, page 120",
          "text": "[I] hurried on […] to Verona, and my first view of Italy’s monumental record of her past. I caught a sort of afterwave of the patriot’s angry shudder as I looked upon the forts which had recently made one of the chief overawing strongholds of the Austrian domination.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Ayi Kwei Armah, chapter 6, in The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 84",
          "text": "Sounds, the mild thunder of the night waves hitting calmer water and the sigh of retreating afterwaves, now joined together with what we saw.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Norman Rush, chapter 37, in Mortals, New York: Knopf, pages 705–706",
          "text": "He moved in her. She was in one of the afterwaves of coming when he began.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A wave (in literal and figurative senses) that follows something."
      ],
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        [
          "wave",
          "wave"
        ],
        [
          "follow",
          "follow"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "afterwave"
}

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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "after",
        "3": "wave"
      },
      "expansion": "after- + wave",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From after- + wave.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "afterwaves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "expansion": "afterwave (plural afterwaves)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "text": "1801, Robert Charles Dallas (translator), The Natural History of Volcanoes by the Abbé Ordinaire, London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, Chapter 22, p. 158,\nFrom the fierce burning stream, the afterwaves keep those over which they flow, in a state of fusion:"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1866 April 28, Saturday Review, volume 21, number 548, page 490",
          "text": "Simultaneously with the lull in Germany we are beginning to hear of all these preparations [in Italy], which the lull renders comparatively unimportant. The news of them comes as a sort of afterwave of the German crisis.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918, James Sully, chapter 5, in My Life and Friends: A Psychologist’s Memories, London: T. Fisher Unwin, page 120",
          "text": "[I] hurried on […] to Verona, and my first view of Italy’s monumental record of her past. I caught a sort of afterwave of the patriot’s angry shudder as I looked upon the forts which had recently made one of the chief overawing strongholds of the Austrian domination.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Ayi Kwei Armah, chapter 6, in The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 84",
          "text": "Sounds, the mild thunder of the night waves hitting calmer water and the sigh of retreating afterwaves, now joined together with what we saw.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Norman Rush, chapter 37, in Mortals, New York: Knopf, pages 705–706",
          "text": "He moved in her. She was in one of the afterwaves of coming when he began.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A wave (in literal and figurative senses) that follows something."
      ],
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  "word": "afterwave"
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