Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

aftergame

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: af-tergame
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A second game played to reverse the outcome of the first; the means employed after the first turn of affairs.

Archaic

noun

Bonus features, dialogue, etc. accessed when a previously-beaten video game is revisited.

Example Sentences

"1597, Michael Drayton, Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling, 1603, “Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk, to Mary the French Queene,” Twere ouer-sight in that at which we ayme, / To put the hazard on an after-game;"
"so many thousand faithfull and valiant English men, who left us in this libertie, bought with thir lives; losing by a strange after game of folly, all the battels we have wonn,"
"Our first Design, my Friend, has proved abortive; / Still there remains an After-game to play:"

Etymology

From after- + game.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: after

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

aftergames (plural)

Synonyms

rematch

Antonyms

foregame

Questions

What does aftergame mean?: A second game played to reverse the outcome of the first; the means employed after the first turn of affairs.
Where does aftergame come from?: From after- + game.

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