"afterward" meaning in English

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Terms suffixed with -ward",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "after",
        "2": "ward"
      },
      "expansion": "after + -ward",
      "name": "ety-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "after + -ward",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "afterward",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Preposition"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "preposition"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "af‧ter‧ward",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Joe went to the bank. Afterward he went to the store."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something happens afterward, it happens after the time that you are talking about."
      ],
      "id": "simple-afterward-en-prep-wvJcY0tb",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "afterwards"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɑːftə.wəd/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈæf.tɚ.wɚd/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-afterward.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "afterward"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Terms suffixed with -ward"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "after",
        "2": "ward"
      },
      "expansion": "after + -ward",
      "name": "ety-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "after + -ward",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "afterward",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Preposition"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "preposition"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "af‧ter‧ward",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Joe went to the bank. Afterward he went to the store."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something happens afterward, it happens after the time that you are talking about."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "afterwards"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɑːftə.wəd/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈæf.tɚ.wɚd/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-afterward.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "afterward"
}