arter

See also: Arter and ärter

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, page 115,

     "Is he asleep at last?"...

     "Aye, sir. So 'e should, arter what I put in 'is Madeira!"

Anagrams

• Terra, rater, tarre, terra

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Danish

Noun

arter c

1. plural indefinite of art

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Latin

Verb

arter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of artō

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

arter m, f

1. indefinite plural of art

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• artar

Noun

arter m, f

1. indefinite feminine plural of art

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Swedish

Noun

arter

1. indefinite plural of art