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arter

arter

See also: 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 0935526722, page 115,
      "Is he asleep at last?"...
      "Aye, sir. So 'e should, arter what I put in 'is Madeira!"

Anagrams


Danish

Noun

arter c

  1. plural indefinite of art

Latin

Verb

arter

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of artō

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

arter m, f

  1. indefinite plural of art

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Noun

arter m, f

  1. indefinite feminine plural of art

Swedish

Noun

arter

  1. indefinite plural of art