afterword

[ af-ter-wurd, ahf- ]

noun

1. a concluding section, commentary, etc., as of a book, treatise, or the like; closing statement.

afterword

/ ˈɑːftəˌwɜːd /

noun

1. an epilogue or postscript in a book, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of afterword¹

First recorded in 1885–90; after + word

Example Sentences

In his afterword, Cornwell says his father began writing the book around 2013 yet the manuscript was “never signed off.”

From Time

Left behind when le Carré died, the book was shepherded to publication by his son Nick Cornwell, who says in an afterword that the process was more like retouching a painting than completing a novel.

From Time

It transformed the culture with a “sudden flood of new ideas, combined with the relative lack of statutory oversight on a whole generation of youth,” as translator Ari Larissa Heinrich explains in the afterword.

From MIT Technology Review

Music journalist Joel Selwin annotates, with a preface by Donovan, a foreword by Jorma Kaukonen, and an afterword by John Poppy.

From The Daily Beast

And Tom Cruise pens the afterword of your book, about your aborted project At the Mountains of Madness.

From The Daily Beast

“Afterword” from Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser.

From The Daily Beast

This piece was adapted from a new Afterword on forgiveness, to be published in the expanded paperback edition March 3.

From The Daily Beast

Gay Talese's brilliant history of morality in America was re-issued this year with a new afterword by the author.

From The Daily Beast

This shall be a brief afterword, for I have little else to say.

From Project Gutenberg

I had not thought to add anything to them by way of an afterword.

From Project Gutenberg

"Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it," is the prayer's solemn afterword; but the prayer we ask is no trifle.

From Project Gutenberg