arter
English
Preposition
arter
- Pronunciation spelling of after.
- 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 45:
- " […] His right name was Compeyson; and that's the man, dear boy, what you see me a-pounding in the ditch, according to what you truly told your comrade arter I was gone last night. […] "
- Ibid., chapter XX, volume II, page 344:
- " […] It was the money left me, and the gains of the first few year wot I sent home to Mr. Jaggers — all for you — when he first come arter you, agreeable to my letter. […] "
- 1930, Captain Dingle, “In Conclusion” (chapter 34), in Seaworthy, Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 274:
- ‘I hope es young Dick ’grees to take your ship out ag’in, Peter. But if he don’t, I reckon mebbe I told you a lie about that license o’ mine. I jest wanted to surprise him arter we got to sea, thet’s all. You don’t ’magine a feller es young Dick teached ’d fail, do you?’
- 2000, Alexander Kent, Colours Aloft!, McBooks Press, →ISBN, page 115:
- "Is he asleep at last?"...
- "Aye, sir. So 'e should, arter what I put in 'is Madeira!"
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
arter (feminine artera, masculine plural arters, feminine plural arteres)
Derived terms
- arteria
- arterós
Further reading
- “arter”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
Danish
Noun
arter c
- indefinite plural of art
Latin
Verb
arter
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of artō
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
arter m or f
- indefinite plural of art
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Noun
arter m or f
- indefinite feminine plural of art
Swedish
Pronunciation
Audio (Sweden (Stockholm)): (file)
Noun
arter
- indefinite plural of art