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after-dinner

[ af-ter-din-er, ahf- ]

adjective

  1. immediately following dinner:

    an after-dinner speech.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of after-dinner1

First recorded in 1570–80
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Example Sentences

Outside, to the left of the revolving doors, is where he would smoke his after-dinner cigarette.

A school classroom suddenly seems like an after-dinner speech.

It may be something to do with the embarrassment of trying to maintain after-dinner conversation.

The Victorians were so energetic that in the 1880s they came up with a new after-dinner entertainment.

Jennie Yabroff on the new frontier in after-dinner indulgence.

Agnes was often a visitor at Bungay, and not a little shocked at the atrocious after-dinner talk of the Bungay Radicals.

He did not like to disturb his after-dinner nap, and he settled back in his chair again and refolded his hands.

It looked to me like an after-dinner nap, but I was told it was magnetic.

These regrets rose stronger, when his after-dinner courage returned to him as he sate solitary over his fire.

No one has ever told of his "silver tongue," or remembered a brilliant after-dinner speech that he has made.

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