aftercareer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The career that follows a particular experience or stage in a person's life; later career.
Dated
Example Sentences
- "In a youth entering life under the protection of such relations, who could have anticipated the future dramatist and poet laureat […]? In his after career, his early connections with the puritans, and the principles of his kinsmen during the civil wars and usurpation, were often made subjects of reproach […]"
- "Nothing more happened to ruffle Mr Pontifex, so we had a delightful evening, which has often recurred to me while watching the after career of my godson."
- "[…] it was not till the afternoon that they came out on the high-road, their first high-road; and there disaster, fleet and unforeseen, sprang out on them—disaster momentous indeed to their expedition, but simply overwhelming in its effect on the after-career of Toad."
- "[…] since the author himself seldom sold the copy to the bookseller, he had no personal or financial interest in his play’s aftercareer except on the stage, the more especially since he did not believe that in a play he was writing in a medium that would bring him literary fame."
Etymology
From after- + career.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: after