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单词 postscripts
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postscript

noun

post·​script ˈpōs(t)-ˌskript How to pronounce postscript (audio)
: a note or series of notes appended to a completed letter, article, or book

Example Sentences

In a postscript to her letter, she promised to write again soon. An interesting postscript to the story is that the two people involved later got married.
Recent Examples on the Web Sampat’s talent strategy is a postscript of sorts to her hiring efforts in previous tech roles. Aman Kidwai, Fortune, 2 May 2022 Spector, who died of cancer in January at age 78, first published the book in 1990, and a new hardcover version with an introduction written by Keith Richards and a postscript by Spector was released on May 3. Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 6 June 2022 Moreover, there’s a crucial legal detail that perhaps could be explained in a postscript, especially for the benefit of American, British and some European viewers. Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 May 2022 The pair also added a humorous postscript in which the 37-year-old Crosby insisted that the 31-year-old O'Donnell sleep in his jersey. Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2022 As the postscript says, the Duke remarried five weeks after his divorce was ruled. Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 Apr. 2022 There is a postscript that should have been included in Friday’s story about the Lakers’ historic 33-game winning streak. Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2022 According to the table of contents, the memoir was to be divided into 8 chapters and a postscript. Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2022 The postscript here is that, as this legal affair works its way toward an inevitable settlement, the conclusion will in fact be one more turning of the page that moves CNN into a new chapter for the network. Andy Meek, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

New Latin postscriptum, from Latin, neuter of postscriptus, past participle of postscribere to write after, from post- + scribere to write — more at scribe

First Known Use

1551, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

postscript

noun

post·​script ˈpōst-ˌskript How to pronounce postscript (audio)
: a note added at the end of a letter, article, or book

postscripts

noun

plural of postscript
as in epilogues

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • epilogues
  • codas
  • aftermaths
  • anticlimaxes
  • endings
  • epilogs
  • consummations
  • finales
  • closings
  • conclusions
  • finishes
  • windups
  • grand finales
  • wrap-ups
  • endgames
  • closes
  • cappers
  • climaxes
  • crescendoes
  • culminations
  • crescendos
  • mop-ups
  • finises
  • capstones
  • copestones
  • summits
  • tops
  • peaks
  • zeniths
  • pinnacles
  • ends
  • apexes
  • acmes
  • crowns
  • crescendi
  • tail ends
  • homestretches
  • tag ends
  • meridians
  • tip-tops
  • high-water marks
  • shanks
  • coups de grâce
  • coups de grace
  • apices

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • prefaces
  • introductions
  • forewords
  • preambles
  • overtures
  • prologues
  • preludes
  • beginnings
  • prologs
  • openings
  • starts
  • baselines
  • dawns
  • day ones
  • nascencies
  • nascences
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