Word Type
After can be an adverb, a conjunction, an adjective or a preposition.
after used as an adverb:
- Behind; later in time; following.
"They lived happily ever after."
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
after used as a conjunction:
- .
"I went home after we had decided to call it a day."
Conjunctions are connector words. Examples of conjunctions are: and, but, so. They help us to group words and connect phrases, like in the sentence: "We have apples and oranges, but we need bananas." Learn more →
after used as an adjective:
- At or towards the stern of a ship
"The after gun is mounted aft." - Later; subsequent.
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
after used as a preposition:
- subsequently to; following in time; later than.
"We had a few beers after the game." - behind
"he will leave a trail of destruction after him" - in pursuit of, seeking
"he's after a job" - in allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing
"we named him after his grandfather" - next in importance or rank
"The princess is next in line to the throne after the prince." - as a result of
"After your bad behaviour, you will be punished." - in spite of
"After all that has happened, he is still my friend."
Prepositions are used to show the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word. Examples of prepositions are: in, during, beside, after, for. In the sentence "Sows suffer in factory farms." The preposition "in" tells us the position of the sow relative to the factory farm. Learn more →
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What type of word is after?
- Adverb usage: They lived happily ever after.
- Adverb usage: I left the room, and the dog bounded after.
- Conjunction usage: I went home after we had decided to call it a day.
- Adjective usage: The after gun is mounted aft.
- Adjective usage: The after gun is abaft the forward gun.
- Preposition usage: We had a few beers after the game.
- Preposition usage: The time is quarter after eight.
- Preposition usage: The Cold War began shortly after the Second World War
- Preposition usage: he will leave a trail of destruction after him
- Preposition usage: he's after a job
- Preposition usage: run after him
- Preposition usage: inquire after her health
- Preposition usage: we named him after his grandfather
- Preposition usage: a painting after Leonardo da Vinci
- Preposition usage: The princess is next in line to the throne after the prince.
- Preposition usage: After your bad behaviour, you will be punished.
- Preposition usage: After all that has happened, he is still my friend.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of after are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of after, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
