Meanings
nounafteryears pl (plural only)
alternative after-years
- pluralplural onlysubsequent years
I sang that song in summer, […] I sang it when in afteryears / The shades stretched out, / And paths were faint […]
1922, Thomas Hardy, Her Song
Origin
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