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after

/ˈɑːftə/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈɑːftə/
after
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Open ah vowel
Ending
Final r is pronounced in US English

af - ter -> after

Myanmar meaning

(adj) နှောင်း။ နောက်ပိုင်း။ (adv) ပြီးလျှင်။ ထို့နောက်တွင်။ ကုန်ဆုံးသည့်နောက်တွင်။ ပြီး။ နောက်။ နောက်မှ။ (နာရီ)ထိုးပြီး။ လိုက်နေတယ်။

Full entry

after / 'ɑ:ftǝ (r); US 'æf / adv

၁။ ပြီးလျှင်။ ထို့နောက်တွင်။ ကုန်ဆုံးသည့်နောက်တွင်။ ပြီး။ နောက်။ The day after, he left the country. ❍ It reappeared long/ soon after. ❍ They lived happily ever after.
၂။ နောက်မှ။ She followed on after. Compare BEFORE adv
prep
၁။ (က) အပြီး။ ပြီး။ နောက်။ (နာရီ)ထိုးပြီး။ leave after lunch/ shortly after six/ the day after tomorrow/ the week after next ❍ (US ) ten after seven in the morning (ie 7:10 am) Compare BEFORE
(ခ) sth ~ sth ပြီးလျှင်။ ပြီး။ day after day/ week after week/ year after year/ time after time (ie very often) ❍ He fired shot after shot (ie many shots).
၂။ (က) ပြီးနောက်။ ပြီးလျှင်။ ပြီး။ Shut the door after you when you go out. ❍ I'm always having to clear up after the children (ie deal with the mess they have left).
(ခ) နောက်သို့။ နောက်ကို။ The boys stared after us.
၃။ ပြီးမှ။ ပြီးလျှင်။ Your name comes after mine in the list. ❍ C comes after B in the alphabet. ❍ He's the tallest in the class after Richard. ❍ After you (ie Please go in before me, serve yourself first, etc). ❍ After you with the salt. ❍ BEFORE
၄။ တွေ့ကြုံခဲ့ရပြီးသည့်နောက်။ The cottage was beautifully quiet after all the noise and bustle in the town.
၅။ (တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ) ဖြစ်ပြီးသည့်နောက်တွင်မှ။ (ဒီလို) လုပ်ခဲ့ပြီး မှတော့။ After what he did to my family, I'll never forgive him. ❍ After your conduct last time, did you really expect to be invited again?
၆။ (ယင်းသို့) ဆောင်ရွက် ပေးခဲ့သည့်တိုင်အောင်။ (ဒီလို) လုပ်ပေးခဲ့တာတောင်။ After everything I've done for him, he still ignores me.
၇။ နောက်သို့။ နောက်ကို။ He ran after her to give her the book. ❍ The police are after him.
၈။ (infml ) လိုက်နေတယ်။ She's after a job in publishing.
၉။ နှင့်ပတ်သက်၍။ အကြောင်း။ They inquired after you (ie asked how you were).
၁၀။ (လက်ရာ၊ ဟန်၊ ပုံစံကို) လိုက်၍။ a painting after Rubens ❍ draw up a constitution after the American model ❍ We've named the baby after you (ie given it your first name in honour of you).
conj ပြီးမှ။ နောက်မှ။ I arrived after he (had) started. ❍ We'll arrive after you've left. Compare BEFORE conj ၁
adj (fml ) နှောင်း။ နောက်ပိုင်း။ in after years.
❏ after all [IDM ]
၁။ အဆုံးမှာတော့။ So you've come after all! ❍ After all, what does it matters?
၂။ တကယ်တော့။ He should have offered to pay-he has plenty of money, after all.
❏ after-care n [U] ဆေးရုံဆင်းပြီး၊ ထောင်မှထွက်လာပြီး စသည်နောက်တွင် ပြုစုစောင့်ရှောက်ပေးခြင်း။ ဆက်လက် စောင့်ရှောက်မှု။ after-care services.
❏ after-effect n [usu pl ] အကျိုးဆက်။ the after-effects of a drug ❍ suffer from/ feel no unpleasant after-effects.
❏ after taste n [sing] ပအာခြင်း။ wine which leaves no unpleasant after-taste (in the mouth).

More examples
  • After the war, I went back to work on the farm.
  • Essays handed in after 12.00 on Friday will not be accepted.
  • She is leaving the school after 20 years as headteacher.
  • This message arrived after everyone had gone home.
  • [after a while] : It seems noisy at first, but after a while you get used to it.
  • [after doing something] : Wash your hands after touching raw meat.
  • [minutes/days/years etc after] : His birthday is two days after mine.
  • She got here just a few seconds after me (=after I got here).
  • Barlow was arrested 24 hours after arriving back in Britain.
  • [soon/shortly/not long after] : Joe was born not long after we moved to London.
  • We got here at eleven and the others arrived soon after.
  • [straight after] : You shouldn’t go swimming straight after a big meal.
  • It’s ten after nine (=9.10).
  • N comes after M in the alphabet.
  • The US is our largest export market after Germany.
  • Kate is my best friend, after you of course.
  • You don’t need to put a full stop after ‘Mr’.
  • What do those letters after your name mean?
  • You turn right just after the pub.
  • A few hundred metres after the village the road ended and we had to stop the car.
  • We get off at the station after Newport.
  • ‘And don’t come back!’ they yelled after him.
  • You can put those toys away because I’m not clearing up after you.
  • She walked out, closing the door gently after her.
Synonyms
following, subsequent to, behind, afterward, afterwards, as soon as, back, back of, bearing in mind, below, considering, ensuing, gone, hind, hindmost, in imitation of, in pursuit of, in quest of, in search of, in the manner of, in the rear, in the same way as, in the style of, later, later than, like, next, next to, on the heels of, on the trail of, once, past, posterior, postliminary, rear, regarding, similar to, subsequential, subsequently, succeeding, taking into account, taking into consideration, thereafter, to the rear of, when, with, à la
Antonyms
ahead of, before
Cross references
followingsubsequent tobehindafterwardafterwardsas soon asbackback ofbearing in mindbelowconsideringensuinggonehindhindmostin imitation ofin pursuit ofin quest ofin search ofin the manner ofin the rearin the same way asin the style oflaterlater thanlikenextnext to
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