"aftercall" meaning in English

See aftercall in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: aftercalls [plural]
Etymology: From after- + call. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|after|call}} after- + call Head templates: {{en-noun}} aftercall (plural aftercalls)
  1. A subsequent call
    Sense id: en-aftercall-en-noun-JWS-nkpq
  2. A call for retribution arising subsequently to the commission of an offense (e.g. sin, crime, etc)
    Sense id: en-aftercall-en-noun-I5hyCPeE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with after-, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 77 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with after-: 15 85 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 13 87 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 92
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: after-call

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "after",
        "3": "call"
      },
      "expansion": "after- + call",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From after- + call.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "aftercalls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "aftercall (plural aftercalls)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Mary Bruins Allison, Sandra J. Shaw, Doctor Mary in Arabia: Memoirs:",
          "text": "It so happened that Christmas was near and I was invited to go to Basrah, so I used that for an excuse to not make an aftercall. Months later, when I was sitting in the hospital one day, a woman came throwing her black abba over my head.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A subsequent call"
      ],
      "id": "en-aftercall-en-noun-JWS-nkpq",
      "links": [
        [
          "subsequent",
          "subsequent"
        ],
        [
          "call",
          "call"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "23 77",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 85",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with after-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "13 87",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 92",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A call for retribution arising subsequently to the commission of an offense (e.g. sin, crime, etc)"
      ],
      "id": "en-aftercall-en-noun-I5hyCPeE",
      "links": [
        [
          "retribution",
          "retribution"
        ],
        [
          "offense",
          "offense"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "after-call"
    }
  ],
  "word": "aftercall"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms prefixed with after-",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "after",
        "3": "call"
      },
      "expansion": "after- + call",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From after- + call.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "aftercalls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "aftercall (plural aftercalls)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Mary Bruins Allison, Sandra J. Shaw, Doctor Mary in Arabia: Memoirs:",
          "text": "It so happened that Christmas was near and I was invited to go to Basrah, so I used that for an excuse to not make an aftercall. Months later, when I was sitting in the hospital one day, a woman came throwing her black abba over my head.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A subsequent call"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "subsequent",
          "subsequent"
        ],
        [
          "call",
          "call"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A call for retribution arising subsequently to the commission of an offense (e.g. sin, crime, etc)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "retribution",
          "retribution"
        ],
        [
          "offense",
          "offense"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "after-call"
    }
  ],
  "word": "aftercall"
}

Download raw JSONL data for aftercall meaning in English (1.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (65a6e81 and 0dbea76). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.