aftermath
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
aftermath (plural aftermaths)
- (obsolete, agriculture) A second mowing; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season.
- 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson: Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes:
- They were cutting aftermath on all sides, which gave the neighbourhood, this gusty autumn morning, an untimely smell of hay.
- 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson: Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes:
- That which happens after, that which follows. Has a strongly negative connotation in most contexts, implying a preceding catastrophe.
- In contrast to most projections of the aftermath of nuclear war, in this there is no rioting or looting.
- French: regain
- German: Nachernte
- Russian: второ́й поко́с
- French: séquelles
- German: Nachwirkung, Folge
- Italian: conseguenze, strascico
- Portuguese: resultado, rescaldo
- Russian: после́дствие
- Spanish: consecuencias, resultados
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