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Pronunciation
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Etymology
Etymology tree English posthumous Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English posthumously From posthumous + -ly.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) After death.
In the following month, driver Ben Gimbert and fireman Jim Nightall (posthumously) were awarded the George Cross, the highest honour the King could give civilians.
2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:In his boyhood that posthumously libelled sovereign lady, Anne, had terribly prevailed among the dwellings on this highway; […]
1913, Booth Tarkington, The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 4:Yet while Gauguin went native, taking teenage mistresses, wearing local costumes and building his own wooden hut, his ultimate purpose was to impress the art world back home. And he did, although posthumously.
2003 October 14, Alan Riding, “The Colors of Paradise As Imagined by Gauguin”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:Mormons have recently posthumously baptised at least 20 Holocaust victims, Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe and the Queen Mother, according to a researcher who has spent two decades monitoring the church’s massive genealogical database.
2017 December 21, “Holocaust victims and Queen Mother posthumously baptised by Mormons”, in The Guardian:
Forms
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Antonyms
antemortem · anthumously · premortem · prehumously
Synonyms
Translations (20)
fr à titre posthume (after death) · ja 死後 (after death) · ru посме́ртно (after death) · gl postumamente (after death) · vi but see truy tặng (after death) · pl pośmiertnie (after death) · fi postuumisti (after death) · eo postmorte (after death) · fr posthumement (after death) · sv postumt (after death) · be пасмяротна (after death) · es post mortem (after death) · hy հետմահու (after death) · sh posthumno (after death) · cs posmrtně (after death) · es póstumamente (after death) · it postumamente (after death) · fi kuoleman jälkeen (after death) · pt postumamente (after death) · hi मरणोपरांत (after death)