postrace

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adjective

Following a race

“the postrace party”

OriginEnglish race ← Middle English race ← Old Norse rás →
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Meanings

adjectivepostrace (not comparable)
  1. not comparableFollowing a race

    the postrace party

    1 more example

    But for months postrace testing could not find the substance, a painkiller far more powerful than morphine.

    2012 June 19, Walt Bogdanich and Rebecca R. Ruiz, “Latest Illegal Drug for Racehorses: ‘Frog Juice’”, NYTimes.com

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pós
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pósti
  3. Proto-Italic*posti
  4. Old Latinposte
  5. Latinpost
  6. Englishpost-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*h₁reh₁s-
  8. Proto-Germanic*rēsō
  9. Proto-West Germanic*rās
  10. Old Englishrǣs
  11. Proto-Germanic*rēsō
  12. Old Norserás
  13. Middle Englishrace
  14. Englishrace
  15. Englishpostrace

From post- + race.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

postrace. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postrace

MLA

“postrace.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postrace. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postrace,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postrace.

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