afterword

English

Etymology

From after- +‎ word. Compare foreword.

Noun

afterword (plural afterwords)

1. an epilogue.
2. (of a letter) a postscript.
3. (to a book) an appendix.

Synonyms

• (epilogue): aftertale, afterward; see also Thesaurus:afterword
• (postscript): afterscript
• (appendix): annex

Translations

epilogue

• Arabic: خَاتِمَة f (ḵātima)
• Belarusian: паслясло́ўе n (pasljaslóŭje), пасьлясло́ўе n (pasʹljaslóŭje)
• Bulgarian: послесло́в m (posleslóv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 後記 / 后记 (zh) (hòujì), 跋 (zh) (bá), 跋文 (zh) (báwén)

• Czech: doslov m
• Danish: efterord n
• Esperanto: postparolo
• Finnish: jälkipuhe
• French: postface (fr) f
• German: Nachwort (de) n
• Italian: epilogo (it) m
• Japanese: 後書き (ja) (あとがき, atogaki), 跋文 (ja) (ばつぶん, batsubun)
• Korean: 발문(跋文) (balmun)
• Maori: turuki, turukitanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: etterord n

• Polish: posłowie (pl) n
• Portuguese: posfácio (pt) m
• Romanian: epilog (ro), postfață (ro) f
• Russian: послесло́вие (ru) n (posleslóvije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̏гово̄р m

  Roman: pȍgovōr (sh) m

• Swedish: efterord (sv) n
• Turkish: bağlak (tr), son söz (tr), epilog (tr)
• Ukrainian: післямо́ва f (pisljamóva)

postscript — see postscript

appendix — see appendix

Anagrams

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