transcription, транскрипция: [ ɑ:ftə(r)wə(r)dz, æf- ]
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
Note: The form 'afterward' is also used, mainly in American English.
If you do something or if something happens afterwards , you do it or it happens after a particular event or time that has already been mentioned.
Shortly afterwards, police arrested four suspects...
James was taken to hospital but died soon afterwards...
ADV : ADV with cl