Hyphenation of after

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word after? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

af-ter

Definitions of after:

1.	Located farther aft
2.	Happening at a time subsequent to a reference time He apologized subsequently He's going to the store but he'll be back here later It didn't happen until afterward Two hours after that
3.	Behind or in the rear And Jill came tumbling after

Synonyms of after:

adj	aft
adv	subsequently, later, afterwards, afterward, later on

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.