aftermath

English

Etymology

From after- +‎ math (“a mowing”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæf.tɚˌmæθ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːf.təˌmæθ/, /ˈɑːf.təˌmɑːθ/, /ˈæf.təˌmæθ/

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Noun

aftermath (plural aftermaths)

1. (obsolete, agriculture) A second mowing; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; lattermath.
   • 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes:

     They were cutting aftermath on all sides, which gave the neighbourhood, this gusty autumn morning, an untimely smell of hay.

2. That which happens after, that which follows, usually of strongly negative connotation in most contexts, implying a preceding catastrophe.

   In contrast to most projections of the aftermath of nuclear war, in this there is no rioting or looting.

   • 2024 September 11, Richard Brody, ““Winner” Takes Political Comedy Seriously”, in The New Yorker‎, archived from the original on 20 September 2024:

     Fogel, working with a script by the journalist Kerry Howley, follows Winner from the age of nine to the aftermath of her plea, and organizes the movie around voice-over reminiscences by Reality (the character is played by Emilia Jones).

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Translations

second mowing

Bulgarian: (please verify) втора коситба f (vtora kositba) Catalan: redall m Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: äpäre (fi) French: regain (fr) m German: Nachmahd f, Grummet (de) n, Zweiter Schnitt m Irish: athbharr m Polish: otawa (pl) f, potraw (pl) m Russian: второ́й поко́с m (vtorój pokós) Slovene: otava f Swedish: efterskörd c, efterslåtter (sv) c Welsh: adladd m

that which happens after, that which follows

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: أَعْقَاب f pl (ʔaʕqāb) Armenian: հետևանքներ (hetewankʻner), հետագա զարգացումներ (hetaga zargacʻumner) Azerbaijani: aqibət (az), sonuc Belarusian: насту́пства n (nastúpstva) Bulgarian: после́дствие (bg) n (poslédstvie), после́дица (bg) f (poslédica) Chinese: Mandarin: 後果 / 后果 (zh) (hòuguǒ), 結果 / 结果 (zh) (jiéguǒ), 餘波 / 余波 (yúbō) Czech: důsledek (cs) m, následek (cs) m Dutch: nasleep (nl) m Esperanto: postfojno Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: jälkivaikutus, jälkiseuraus, jälki (fi), jäljet (fi) pl French: séquelles (fr) f pl, contrecoup (fr) m, impact (fr) m, dégâts (fr) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Nachwirkung (de) f, Folge (de) f, Nachwehen f pl (fig./exalted), Nachspiel (de) n (coll.), Folgezeit (de) f Greek: συνέπεια (el) f (synépeia), επακόλουθο (el) n (epakóloutho) Hungarian: következmény (hu), utóhatás (hu), utóélet (hu) Irish: iarmhairt f, toradh (ga) m Italian: conseguenze (it) f, strascico (it) m Japanese: 余波 (ja) (よ​は, yoha), 結果 (ja) (けっか, kekka) Korean: 여파(餘波) (yeopa), 결과(結果) (ko) (gyeolgwa) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: последица f (posledica) Polish: następstwo (pl) n, pokłosie (pl) n Portuguese: resultado (pt) m, rescaldo (pt) Romanian: consecințe f pl, sechele f pl, consecință (ro) f, repercursiune f, repercursiuni f pl, impact (ro), sechelă (ro) f, urmări (ro) f pl Russian: после́дствие (ru) n (poslédstvije) Slovak: dôsledok m, následok m Spanish: consecuencias (es) f pl, resultados (es) m pl Swedish: efterdyning (sv) c, efterspel (sv) n, efterräkning (sv) c Turkish: ardından, sonrasında Ukrainian: на́слідок m (náslidok) Walloon: shuvance (wa) f Welsh: adladd m

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