arter

      English

      Preposition

      arter

      1. Eye dialect spelling of after.
        • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, chapter 3,
          His right name was Compeyson; and that's the man, dear boy, what you see me a-pounding in the ditch, according to what you truly told your comrade arter I was gone last night.
        • Id., chapter 39,
          It was the money left me, and the gains of the first few year wot I sent home to Mr. Jaggers - all for you - when he first come arter you, agreeable to my letter.
        • 2000, Alexander Kent, Colours Aloft!, McBooks Press, ISBN 0935526722, page 115,
          "Is he asleep at last?"...
          "Aye, sir. So 'e should, arter what I put in 'is Madeira!"

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      Danish

      Noun

      arter c

      1. plural indefinite of art

      Latin

      Verb

      arter

      1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of artō

      Swedish

      Noun

      arter

      1. indefinite plural of art

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