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Definition: Subsequently |
SubsequentlyAdverb1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "subsequently" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: SubsequentlySynonyms: after (adv), afterward (adv), afterwards (adv), later (adv), later on (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Posteriority | Adverb: subsequently, after, afterwards, since, later; at a subsequent, at a later period, at a later date; next, in the sequel, close upon, thereafter, thereupon, upon which, eftsoons; from that time, from that moment; after a while, after a time; in process of time. |
Sequence | Adverb: after, subsequently; behind; (rear). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Subsequently |
| English words defined with "subsequently": and so, and then, Arrowheaded characters, Arthur Wellesley, Audita querela ♦ Bridewell ♦ Constitution of the United States ♦ Duke of Wellington ♦ First Duke of Wellington, Free lance, freeze-dry ♦ Guomindang ♦ Harquebuse, Holy Alliance ♦ Imaginal disks, Imperator, Indeterminate coefficients ♦ Kuomintang ♦ living will ♦ Ottawas ♦ peacock-throne, Phocenic, Pimelic, Playa, Posteriorly, Postexist, Postliminiar, proactive ♦ Remonstrant, Rhinoscleroma ♦ Scagliola, Since, Sir William Wallace, so, Subimago ♦ the Iron Duke, then, To lick into shape, Tojo, Tojo Eiki, Tojo Hideki ♦ United States Constitution ♦ Wallace, Wellington. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "subsequently": Postnate. (references) |
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14-year-old boy fractured his right ulna and radius and subsequently developed wound botulism. Credit: CDC. | ![]() | Ship on Nantucket Shoals that was subsequently blown up Fathometer record of remains of ship. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | |
![]() | Sign over the cell that housed Dr. Samuel Mudd, controversial doctor who treated John Wilkes Booth following Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Mudd was convicted of helping Booth and served three years of his sentence at Fort Jefferson. He helped treat many Union soldiers during a yellow fever epidemic and was subsequently paroled. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | Figure 17. Belknap and Sigsbee sounding device, designed by George Belknap on board the TUSCARORA in 1873-1874. This instrument, which was a modification of the Brooke sounder, was subsequently improved by Lieutenant Charles D. Sigsbee, USN, while in command of the Coast Survey Steamer BLAKE in 1878. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
![]() | Figure 44. Bamberg pneumatic bathometer, constructed by Carl Bamberg. This instrument is in fact an accessory to a Bamberg sounder, which was similar to the Thomson sounder. It used the pressure of water to push a certain quantity of water into a tube and subsequently measuring it in order to determine the depth that the tube had attained. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Figure 61. Electrosounder, used by the Italian Navy in 1954, employed a small explosive device which exploded on impact with the bottom and the sound subsequently was heard at a hydrophone on a ship. The use of explosives for depth finding was first suggested by a French engineer, Urbain Dortet de Tessan about 1850. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
![]() | Figure 67. British Admiralty echo sounder, model MS X. In the 1930's the British Admiralty designed a magnetostrictive ultrasonic sounding device which subsequently led to the manufacture of magnetostrictive sounding systems by Hughes and Son Ltd. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Figure 12. Buchanan piezometers (PRINCESS ALICE models) - These newer models were used on the PRINCESS ALICE II by their designer, John Y. Buchanan in 1902. The first test of these instruments was on July 31st, 1902 in 2589 meters at Lat . 37 31 00N, Long. 24 54 15 W. Subsequently readings were made as deep as 5943 meters. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
![]() | Figure 37. Spring messengers with rotating closing mechanisms. In 1923, the Danish scientist Martin Knudsen described and tested this type of messenger. The goal was to find a form and weight of messenger that would rapidly descend a cable without becoming entangled. Subsequently messengers of this type were most frequently used on research ships throughout the world. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Kolyvano-Voskresenskii Factories Chemical Laboratory(1851); subsequently converted to Altai Regional Museum, Barnaul, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Constitution | 1791 | The amendments were subsequently ratified by the legislatures of Massachusetts, March 2, 1939; Georgia, March 18, 1939; and Connecticut, April 19, 1939. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Further issues by way of acknowledgment and security may be required as the Commission subsequently determines from time to time. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A few isolated problems have been reported, and these problems subsequently have been largely corrected. (references) | |
These ticks could fall off without biting the animal and subsequently attach to and bite people inside the house. (references) | ||
The rise was subsequently traced to aminorex fumarate, an amphetamine-like drug introduced in Europe in 1965 to control appetite. (references) | ||
Business | Most states subsequently extended the temporary protection status of refugees in this category. (references) | |
European made cell phones enjoy duty free entry (Israel and subsequently the PA share a free trade agreement with Europe). (references) | ||
Omnitel and Infostrada are now owned by Vodafone AirTouch of the United Kingdom, which subsequently gained control of Mannesmann. (references) | ||
Children | Uganda | The suspects appeared in court and subsequently were remanded to Luzira prison. (references) |
Ethiopia | In the past several years, the mental hospital trained 117 psychiatric nurses to work in 33 rural clinics; however, half of these nurses subsequently left their jobs. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Nepal | They were subsequently released. (references) |
Economic History | Georgia | New tax and customs heads were subsequently appointed. (references) |
Dominican Republic | Additional U.S. forces subsequently established order. (references) | |
Pakistan | These entities will subsequently operate independently. (references) | |
Human Rights | Belarus | Alkayev subsequently left the country. (references) |
Dominican Republic | The colonel subsequently was promoted. (references) | |
Angola | WFP subsequently suspended food aid to Kuito temporarily. (references) | |
Minorities | Canada | Over 100 Church of God members subsequently fled the country, fearing that more children might be taken from their families. (references) |
Uzbekistan | The law originally required that Uzbek would be the sole method of official communication by 1998, but subsequently was modified to remove a specific date. (references) | |
Tonga | The freeze on issuing new licenses subsequently was lifted, but the hereditary noble's ban (which includes Tongans from outside the district as well) continues at year's end. (references) | |
Political Economy | Haiti | Mobs were subsequently responsible for at least nine killings. (references) |
Guinea | The GOG subsequently arrested several hundred alleged mutineers. (references) | |
Liberia | Most other leaders of the former warring factions subsequently left the country. (references) | |
Political Rights | Fiji | The High Court subsequently dismissed legal challenges to the President's action. (references) |
Kuwait | The case subsequently was abandoned, and no further action was taken during the year. (references) | |
Burundi | In April 1998, multiparty peace talks began in Arusha, Tanzania, and the Government subsequently launched an internal peace process. (references) | |
Trade | Canada | States and provinces subsequently listed their non-conforming measures. (references) |
Nepal | The volume of trading subsequently increased dramatically but has since stabilized. (references) | |
Panama | A new OPIC agreement was signed with Panama on June 1, 2000 and subsequently confirmed by the Panamanian Legislative Assembly. (references) | |
Travel | Kenya | The U.S. Embassy subsequently relocated to a different location. (references) |
Turkey | Customs officials register the items to the traveler's passport and subsequently cancel them as the traveler exits the country with the same items. (references) | |
Ukraine | This has caused problems for American citizens who were not required to purchase insurance upon entering Ukraine, and subsequently had difficulty registering with the Office of Visas and Registration because they lacked proof of insurance. (references) | |
Women | Ghana | The men subsequently were arrested, but they were not convicted. (references) |
Ecuador | In cases of statutory rape involving "amorous" sex with a minor, if the rapist marries the victim the charges against him, or anyone else who took part in the rape, cannot be pursued unless the marriage subsequently is annulled. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Moldova | It was performed subsequently throughout the country. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Subsequently" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Subsequently" is used about 3,673 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 3,673 | 2,638 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "subsequently": rate-subsequently, villagers-subsequently. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
subsequently | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "subsequently"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | later (afterwards, later, later on, next), gevolglik (accordingly, consequently, so, thus), dus (accordingly, consequently, so, then, therefore, thus), daarna (afterwards, next). (various references) | |
Albanian | pastaj (after, afterwards, next, then), më pas (after, after the event). (various references) | |
Arabic | من ثم (thence, therefore, thus, whereupon), بعد ذلك (posteriorly, then, thereafter), بالتالي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | след после, впоследствие (after, afterward, thereafter). (various references) | |
Chinese | 随后 (subsequent). (various references) | |
Czech | příštì (in future, next, next time). (various references) | |
Danish | derefter (afterwards, next). (various references) | |
Dutch | naderhand (afterwards, next), dan (afterwards, next, than, then), daarna (afterwards, next), achteraf (afar, afterwards, far, far away, next, out of the way, remotely). (various references) | |
Esperanto | sekve (consequently, so, thus), poste (afterwards, next). (various references) | |
Faeroese | sostatt (accordingly, consequently, so, then, therefore, thus), seinni (afterwards, next), síðan (afterwards, next), tískil (accordingly, consequently, so, thus). (various references) | |
Finnish | sitten (after that, afterwards, next, then), sittemmin (afterwards, later), sen jälkeen (after that, afterwards, since, thereafter, thereupon), myöhemmin (afterwards, later). (various references) | |
French | puis, ensuite. (various references) | |
Frisian | efteroan (afterwards, next), efternei (afterwards, at last, finally, next, ultimately). (various references) | |
German | später (afterward, afterwards, at a later hour, at a later time, by and by, future, hind, hindmost, later, later on, latish, next, posterior, subsequent, thereafter, thereinafter), nachträgliche. (various references) | |
Greek | μεταγενέστερα. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | pastaj (afterwards, next). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לאחר מכן (afterwards, following, thereafter, thereupon), אחר כך (afterwards, later, then, thereafter). (various references) | |
Hungarian | következésképpen (accordingly, consequently, therefore), azután (after, afterwards, in the next place, item, later, next, then, thereafter). (various references) | |
Italian | dopo (after, after that, afterwards, behind, beyond, later, later on, next, past, since, then, thereafter), dietro (aback, after, afterwards, at the back, back, behind, next, rear, round the corner). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 事前後 (additionally), 次いで (next, secondly). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ついで (next, occasion, opportunity, secondly), じぜ"" (additionally). (various references) | |
Korean | 연속 으로 (Consecutively, Continually). (various references) | |
Manx | ny yei shen (consequently, nevertheless, notwithstanding, thereafter). (various references) | |
Norwegian | bak (after, afterwards, behind, next). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ubsequentlysay.(various references) | |
Polish | zatem (accordingly, consequently, so, thus), więc (accordingly, consequently, so, then, therefore, thus), przeto (accordingly, consequently, so, then, therefore, thus), potem (after, afterwards, behind, next). (various references) | |
Portuguese | subsequentemente (pursuant to, thereafter), subseqüentemente, sendoassim (consequently, thus), ulteriormente (hereafter), porconseguinte (consequently, thus), logo (before long, betimes, beyond, consequently, ergo, next, now that i know it, presently, ready, soon, thus), emseguida (afterwards, beyond, next), depois (after, afterward, afterwards, behind, beyond, hereafter, next, then), atrás (aft, after, afterwards, ago, back, behind, behindhand, next). (various references) | |
Romanian | ulterior (after, afterwards, following, further, future, posterior, subsequent, ulterior), pe urmã (afterwards, next). (various references) | |
Russian | впоследствии (afterward, afterwards, at a later time, at some later point in time, in the sequel). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zatim (addition: in addition, after, afterwards, hereafter, then). (various references) | |
Spanish | después (after, afterward, afterwards, behind, beyond, hereinafter, later, next, then, thereafter), más adelante (afterwards, next), luego (afterwards, anon, beyond, by and by, early, in the next place, later, later on, next, now, presently, soon, then, thereafter, thereupon). (various references) | |
Swedish | senare (after, future, later, later on, latter, puisne, subsequent, ulterior). (various references) | |
Turkish | sonra (after, afterward, afterwards, behind, following, later, next, post-, sequel, subsequent to, thereafter). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | згодом (after, afterward, afterwards, later on, thereafter), потім (after, afterward, afterwards, further, in the next place, next, nextly, then). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | r"i thì (afterward, afterwards, then), r"i sau đó. (various references) | |
Welsh | wedyn (after, afterwards, next, then). (various references) | |
Zulu | emuva (afterwards, behind, next). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | alias. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Subsequently" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: subseqently. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "subsequently" (pronounced su"bsukwuntlē) |
| 9 | -s u k w u n t l ē | consequently. |
| 8 | -u k w u n t l ē | eloquently. |
| 7 | -k w u n t l ē | frequently, infrequently. |
| 5 | -u n t l ē | abundantly, accidently, adamantly, apparently, ardently, arrogantly, blatantly, brilliantly, coherently, competently, complacently, concomitantly, concurrently, confidently, consistently, constantly, conveniently, currently, decently, defiantly, differently, diligently, efficiently, elegantly, eminently, evidently, excellently, extravagantly, exultantly, fervently, flagrantly, flamboyantly, fluently, fraudulently, hesitantly, imminently, impatiently, importantly, imprudently, inadvertently, incessantly, incoherently, incompetently, independently, indignantly, inefficiently, inherently, innocently, insistently, instantly, insufficiently, intelligently, intermittently, leniently, magnificently, militantly, negligently, obediently, patently, patiently, permanently, persistently, pleasantly, poignantly, predominantly, presently, prominently, prudently, pungently, recently, reluctantly, reverently, significantly, silently, stridently, stringently, sufficiently, transparently, triumphantly, unpleasantly, urgently, valiantly, vehemently, violently, virulently. |
| 4 | -n t l ē | bluntly, jointly, faintly, gently, intently, nonchalantly, quaintly, saintly. |
| 3 | -t l ē | abruptly, absolutely, accurately, acutely, adequately, adroitly, affectionately, alternately, appropriately, approximately, aptly, astutely, brightly, commensurately, compassionately, completely, concretely, correctly, costly, courtly, covertly, curtly, definitely, deftly, deliberately, delicately, desperately, devoutly, difficultly, directly, discreetly, dishonestly, justly, knightly, lastly, lately, dispassionately, disproportionately, distinctly, earnestly, elaborately, exactly, expertly, explicitly, exquisitely, firstly, flatly, forthrightly, fortnightly, fortunately, ghastly, ghostly, greatly, honestly, hotly, illicitly, immaculately, immediately, imperfectly, implicitly, inaccurately, inadequately, inappropriately, incorrectly, indefinitely, indirectly, indiscriminately, ineptly, infinitely, innately, inordinately, intimately, intricately, legitimately, lightly, manifestly, minutely, moderately, modestly, mostly, motley, neatly, nightly, overtly, partly, passionately, perfectly, politely, portly, priestly, privately, promptly, proportionately, quietly, raptly, remotely, resolutely, rightly, robustly, secretly, separately, shortly, slightly, smartly, softly, sprightly, stately, steadfastly, stoutly, strictly, succinctly, sweetly, swiftly, tacitly, tightly, ultimately, unfortunately, unjustly, unsightly, vastly, Whitely. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-l-n-q-s-s-t-u-u-y" | |
-2 letters: subsequent. | |
-3 letters: butylenes. | |
-4 letters: bequests, blueness, butylene, sequents, subteens, sunbelts, tubeless, tuneless, unsteels, unsubtle, unsubtly. | |
-5 letters: bequest, bustles, butenes, eluents, nestles, netless, queenly, sequels, sequent, sublets, subnets, subteen, sunbelt, tensely, tubules, unbelts, unblest, unsteel. | |
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