postscript
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈpoʊstˌskrɪpt/
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posdata
- After his signature, there was a brief postscript reminding her of their meeting next week.
PS Ryan, we have one postscript question here.
- PS Ryan, we have one postscript question here.
- You always have a postscript P dot S dot right, another CTA.
- Sometimes people think that they have healed from their narcissistic abuse by moving away and that it's behind them, a sort of postscript.
- So he understands this, and yet he maintains the attachment and the very last portion of the letter, the PS, the postscript.
- All right, so this is a funny postscript.
- So I want to begin here with this this postscript.
Examples
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At the end of his typewritten letter, Rosenthal scrawled a handwritten postscript: "As you may have seen, we started tonight."
Academic text (2017) -
There's a postscript on the bottom.
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But, you know, he wrote a postscript to the the case and it was his analysis of what went wrong.
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And in a postscript here, he says "alone."
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There is a postscript I want you all to hear.
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Interesting postscript to that story.
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I'm going to read the postscript that I wrote, which is quite short.
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Oh, yes, there's a postscript you might be interested in.
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Frisch explains in his postscript that the world exists to be put into question.
Academic text (1993) -
But, in fact, much was new, even by 1962, when Rose wrote his postscript to An American Dilemma.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
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1.0
A short written message to remind or tell someone something
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2.6
A short note added after your name at the end of a letter or email
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7.1
A short section at the end of a book or report with extra information
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4.4
A short written note added to a document to give information
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word postscript comes from the parts post- ('after') and script ('written'), like the post- in 'postpone' and the script in 'script'. So a postscript is 'written after' the main letter, which is why we add it at the end after the signature.