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afters

afters

8.9
A sweet dish served at the end of a meal, like cake or ice cream
  • noun
  • /ˈɑːftəz/
  • UK
translation icon : postre
  • Would you like some fruit for afters or perhaps some ice cream?

Examples

  • I'm too full for afters, but the pudding looks tempting.

  • For afters, we had a delicious chocolate cake.

  • We had delicious afters after dinner.

  • What are we having for afters tonight?

  • For afters, we had a delicious chocolate cake.

  • I'm too full for afters, but the pudding looks tempting.

  • Would you like some fruit for afters or perhaps some ice cream?

Synonyms

dessert
vsafters
431 1.0

A sweet dish eaten at the end of a meal

has the same meaning but is an alternative term for that course
sweet
vsafters
69 1.0

A small sugary food eaten after a meal

is the sugary course after the main meal rather than a small snack

How Sweet

afters
  • UK
8.9
pudding
41 1.0
to fruit
6 4.4

Surface Forms

afters singular
afters plural

Morphology

afters = (transparent) = after + s

Meaning is directly predictable as something that comes after a meal (the items served after), so learners who know 'after' can infer 'afters'. [Postprocessing: moved 'after' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Afters comes from the simple word after, which means 'later'. So afters are the sweet things you enjoy 'after' the main part of a meal, and that is why the word means dessert.