Word of the Day: Aftermath

Word of the Day: Aftermath

 

noun AF-ter-math

 

Definition

1 : a second-growth crop
2 : consequence, result
3 : the period immediately following a usually ruinous event

Examples

It was almost noon before I felt ready to face the aftermath of the previous night's festivities, and to begin cleaning up.
"In the aftermath of World War II, Tupperware parties became a popular compromise between the jobs many [American women] had grown accustomed to while American men were fighting overseas and their re-entrenched domestic obligations as wives and mothers." — Schuyler Velasco, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2015