apres

See also: aprés, après, and âpres

English

Alternative forms

• après

Etymology

Borrowed from French après (“after”).

Preposition

apres

1. (rare, nonstandard) After
   • 2003, Rasheed Lumumba Jones et al. The Humours of Black Life [1]

     We must comment and critique the film while its in progress or else some crucial nuance of a technical or creative nature might be forgotten during an apres-movie discussion.

Noun

apres (uncountable)

1. Abbreviation of après-ski.

Anagrams

• Asper, Earps, Pears, Peras, RESPA, Rapes, Spear, Spera, apers, as per, asper, pares, parse, pears, prase, presa, præs., rapes, reaps, sarpe, spare, spear

Old French

Preposition

apres

1. Alternative form of aprés (in original manuscripts)

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Late Latin ad pressum from Latin ad + pressum. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French aprés.

Preposition

apres

1. after (later, at a later time)

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ad pressum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 178