après

See also: apres, aprés, and âpres

English

Alternative forms

• apres, aprés (nonstandard)

Etymology

Borrowed from French après.

Preposition

après

1. After.
   • 2002, Jorge Ramos, The Other Face of America, Patricia J Duncan tr. [1]

     How about an après ski massage? Well, it’ll cost you $80 for fifty minutes at the Aspen Club, tip included. Thank goodness.

Usage notes

• Often hyphenated to its referent, following conventions of English multi-word–modifier hyphenation.

Derived terms

• après-ski

Noun

après (uncountable)

1. Abbreviation of après-ski.

Anagrams

• Asper, Earps, Pears, Peras, RESPA, Rapes, Spear, Spera, apers, as per, asper, pares, parse, pears, prase, presa, præs., rapes, reaps, sarpe, spare, spear

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Catalan

Etymology

From (compare Occitan aprés), from Latin apprensus, variant of apprehensus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əˈpɾɛs]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əˈpɾəs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈpɾes]
• Rhymes: -ɛs

Adjective

après (feminine apresa, masculine plural apresos, feminine plural apreses)

1. learnt

Verb

après (feminine apresa, masculine plural apresos, feminine plural apreses)

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French

Etymology

From Middle French aprés, from Old French aprés, from Vulgar Latin *adpressum, from Latin ad + pressum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.pʁɛ/

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Preposition

après

1. after

   On mange après avoir bu. ― We eat after we drink.

Adverb

après

1. afterwards

   On va au cinéma après. ― We'll go to the cinema afterwards.

2. (Louisiana) in the middle of, in the process of (doing something)

Further reading

• “après”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• épars, pares, parés, râpes, râpés, repas, saper

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Norman

Alternative forms

• oprès (Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French aprés, from Vulgar Latin *adpressum, from Latin ad + pressum.

Preposition

après

1. (Jersey) after

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Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Vulgar Latin *adpressum from Latin ad + pressum.

Preposition

après

1. after; afterwards