"aftertime" meaning in English

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "foretime"
    },
    {
      "word": "the past"
    }
  ],
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "after",
        "3": "time"
      },
      "expansion": "after- + time",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From after- + time.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "aftertimes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "aftertime (plural aftertimes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1865, Lewis Carroll, chapter 12, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland",
          "text": "Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1878, Mark (Samuel Clemens) Twain, A Tramp Abroad",
          "text": "Toward morning, while the old man sat exhausted and asleep in his chair where he had been sitting before his books as one who watches by his beloved dead and prints the features on his memory for a solace in the aftertime of empty desolation, his daughter sprang into the room and gently woke him, saying-- \"My presentiment was true!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1902, William James, The Varities of Religious Experience, Folio Society, published 2008, page 322",
          "text": "mystical states seem [...] full of significance and importance, all inarticulate though they remain; and as a rule they carry with them a curious sense of authority for after-time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1924, Herman Melville, chapter 18, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.",
          "text": "For it was close on the heel of the suppressed insurrections, an aftertime very critical to naval authority, demanding from every English sea-commander two qualities not readily interfusable—prudence and rigour.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A later time; the future."
      ],
      "id": "en-aftertime-en-noun-hgyewyuw",
      "links": [
        [
          "later",
          "later"
        ],
        [
          "future",
          "future"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "bǎdešte",
          "sense": "a later time",
          "word": "бъдеще"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Music",
          "orig": "en:Music",
          "parents": [
            "Art",
            "Sound",
            "Culture",
            "Energy",
            "Society",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "_dis": "2 98",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 77",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with after-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The process in which a harmony singer or background singer repeats a line or a series of words in a song separately after the lead singer rather than singing it in unison with the lead singer; prominent in country music and Southern gospel."
      ],
      "id": "en-aftertime-en-noun-JBVthFG-",
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "harmony",
          "harmony"
        ],
        [
          "unison",
          "unison"
        ],
        [
          "country music",
          "country music"
        ],
        [
          "Southern gospel",
          "Southern gospel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music) The process in which a harmony singer or background singer repeats a line or a series of words in a song separately after the lead singer rather than singing it in unison with the lead singer; prominent in country music and Southern gospel."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɑːf.tə.taɪm/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hereafter"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "the future"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "after-time"
    }
  ],
  "word": "aftertime"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "foretime"
    },
    {
      "word": "the past"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "English 3-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms prefixed with after-",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "after",
        "3": "time"
      },
      "expansion": "after- + time",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From after- + time.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "aftertimes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "aftertime (plural aftertimes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1865, Lewis Carroll, chapter 12, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland",
          "text": "Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1878, Mark (Samuel Clemens) Twain, A Tramp Abroad",
          "text": "Toward morning, while the old man sat exhausted and asleep in his chair where he had been sitting before his books as one who watches by his beloved dead and prints the features on his memory for a solace in the aftertime of empty desolation, his daughter sprang into the room and gently woke him, saying-- \"My presentiment was true!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1902, William James, The Varities of Religious Experience, Folio Society, published 2008, page 322",
          "text": "mystical states seem [...] full of significance and importance, all inarticulate though they remain; and as a rule they carry with them a curious sense of authority for after-time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1924, Herman Melville, chapter 18, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.",
          "text": "For it was close on the heel of the suppressed insurrections, an aftertime very critical to naval authority, demanding from every English sea-commander two qualities not readily interfusable—prudence and rigour.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A later time; the future."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "later",
          "later"
        ],
        [
          "future",
          "future"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Music"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The process in which a harmony singer or background singer repeats a line or a series of words in a song separately after the lead singer rather than singing it in unison with the lead singer; prominent in country music and Southern gospel."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "harmony",
          "harmony"
        ],
        [
          "unison",
          "unison"
        ],
        [
          "country music",
          "country music"
        ],
        [
          "Southern gospel",
          "Southern gospel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music) The process in which a harmony singer or background singer repeats a line or a series of words in a song separately after the lead singer rather than singing it in unison with the lead singer; prominent in country music and Southern gospel."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɑːf.tə.taɪm/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "hereafter"
    },
    {
      "word": "the future"
    },
    {
      "word": "after-time"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bǎdešte",
      "sense": "a later time",
      "word": "бъдеще"
    }
  ],
  "word": "aftertime"
}