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PRONUNCIATION OF POSTFACE

postface  [ˈpəʊstfəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POSTFACE

noun
adjective
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Postface is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES POSTFACE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Postface

A postface is the opposite of a preface, a brief article or explanatory information placed at the end of a book. Postfaces are quite often used in books so that the non-pertinent information will appear at the end of the literary work, and not confuse the reader. A postface is a text added to the end of a book or written as a supplement or conclusion, usually to give a comment, an explanation or a warning. The postface can be written by the author of a document or by another person. The postface is separated from the main body of the book and is placed in the appendices pages, that is to say at the end of the document. The postface presents information that are not essential to the entire book, but which are considered relevant. There are at least two authentic examples of postfaces in published works. One can be found in the 1954 book Dalí's Mustache: A Photographic Interview, by Salvador Dalí and Philippe Halsman. While the main body of the work is a collaboration, each author gets a few words to himself, Dalí in the preface and Halsman in the postface.

Definition of postface in the English dictionary

The definition of postface in the dictionary is any statement or information at the end of a text, the opposite of a preface.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POSTFACE


amorphous
əˈmɔːfəs
doofus
ˈduːfəs
Dreyfus
ˈdreɪfəs
isomorphous
ˌaɪsəʊˈmɔːfəs
Josephus
dʒəʊˈsiːfəs
metamorphous
ˌmɛtəˈmɔːfəs
monadelphous
ˌmɒnəˈdɛlfəs
ophiomorphous
ˌɒfɪəˈmɔːfəs
paramorphous
ˌpærəˈmɔːfəs
pentadelphous
ˌpɛntəˈdɛlfəs
philadelphus
ˌfɪləˈdɛlfəs
pleomorphous
ˌpliːəˈmɔːfəs
polymorphous
ˌpɒlɪˈmɔːfəs
rufous
ˈruːfəs
Sisyphus
ˈsɪsɪfəs
tophus
ˈtəʊfəs
triadelphous
ˌtraɪəˈdɛlfəs
typhous
ˈtaɪfəs
typhus
ˈtaɪfəs
zizyphus
ˈzɪzɪfəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POSTFACE

posterization
posterize
postern
posterolateral
posteruptive
postexercise
postexilian
postexilic
postexperience
postexposure
postfeminist
postfire
postfix
postfixal
postflight
postform
postgame
postganglionic
postglacial
postgrad

WORDS THAT END LIKE POSTFACE

a slap in the face
air-to-surface
catface
come to the surface
en face
face
face to face
face-to-face
in-your-face
interface
on the surface
outface
preface
road surface
rock face
Scarface
shitface
surface
surface-to-surface
user interface

Synonyms and antonyms of postface in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «postface» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POSTFACE

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Translator English - Chinese

postface
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

epílogo
570 millions of speakers

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postface
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

postface
380 millions of speakers
ar

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postface
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Послесловие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

posfácio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পুস্তকের শেষে সংক্ষিপ্ত মন্তব্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

postface
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Postface
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Nachwort
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

後書き
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

postface
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Postface
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

postface
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

postface
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोस्टफेस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

postface
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

postface
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

postface
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Післямова
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

postfață
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επίμετρο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

postface
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Ordet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

postface
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of postface

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POSTFACE»

The term «postface» is regularly used and occupies the 82.301 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POSTFACE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about postface

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POSTFACE»

Discover the use of postface in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to postface and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation
The celebrated "Postface to the Second Edition" of Capital, too, is later, as its title indicates; similarly, the final text of Klossowski's Lois de I'hospitalite (1965) is, like the initial "foreword," a paratext later than the three narratives brought together ...
Gerard Genette, 1997
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The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory
Postface. to. Erwin. Panofsky,. Gothic. Architecture. and. Scholasticism. PIERRE BOURDIEU | Translated by Laurence Petit Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism is undoubtedly one of those books that most effectively challenges positivism.
Bruce Holsinger, 2005
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A Rhetoric of Style
It seems at least as logical as it is whimsical to end with a postface. This has been a book about putting on a good show, creating a persona, projecting a style. Therefore, I could wish that the etymology of preface were different from what it ...
Brummett, Barry
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Karl Marx:
Postface. to. the. Second. Edition. of. Das. Kapital,. Volume. I*. K. Marx. *Source: B. Fowkes (trans.) ( 1 976) Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. I, The Process of Capitalist Production, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books in association  ...
Roberto Marchionatti, 1998
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Dong Zhongshu, a ‘Confucian’ Heritage and the Chunqiu Fanlu
303 with annotation, postface by Kong Iihan (1739-84); no. 304 with annotation and postface by Huang Peilie E5811 (1763-1825); no. 305 with postface by Zhang Yuanji 55771191'? (b. 1868), annotation and postface by Fu Zengxiang ...
Michael Loewe, 2011
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Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 ...
POSTFACE. Hopes that "conceptual art" would be able to avoid the general commercialization, the destructively "progressive" approach of modernism were for the most part unfounded. It seemed in 1969 (see Preface) that no one, not even a ...
Lucy R. Lippard, 1973
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孔子家语:
The only explanation can be that, to the author of the postface, the "School Sayings of Confucius" constituted a collection existing right from the beginning — as may be clearly inferred from his account — and that therefore this collection should ...
Robert Paul Kramers, 1950
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Ban Gu's History of Early China
Anthony E. Clark. Liu Zhilin's second assertion concerns the content of the History of the Han:猶案古本敘傳號為中篇,今本稱為敘傳,又今本敘傳載班彪事行,而 古本云「彪自有傳」. Moreover, according to the “ancient edition,” the “postface” is called ...
Anthony E. Clark
9
Transmitters and Creators: Chinese Commentators and ...
The single-postface reprint (ca. 1429-41). A re-engraving of the original redaction that omitted one of the postfaces. (The re-engraved copy reproduced in Guyi congshu "£" i& j|st -IF [Collection of lost ancient texts] of 1882 and the facsimile ...
John Makeham, 2003
10
The Encyclopedia of Taoism: 2-volume set
1225–52), *Lei Shizhong (1221–95), and Bai Yuchan, respectively. 104–8. Jingxiao 景霄(Effulgent Empyrean) Thunder Rites transmitted from *Chen Nan (? –1213) to Bai Yuchan, with postface ascribed to Yu Ji 虞集(1272–1348). 111–13.
Fabrizio Pregadio, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POSTFACE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term postface is used in the context of the following news items.
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Crisis and Strategy: On Daniel Bensaïd's “The Notion of the …
This is a point that is reminiscent of Lenin's explanation in the Postface of State and Revolution for the incompleteness of the text: “I was ... «International Viewpoint, Jul 15»
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Genèse de la rencontre entre Kosmos et iRéalité…
Postface », in Pignier N., Drouillat B., Le webdesign. Sociale expérience des interfaces web, Hermès-Lavoisier, p. 217-219. BOUTAUD, J.-J. «serious games et du ludo-éducatif, Jun 15»
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The Obsessive Belgian Anti-Israel Bias
... Organisations Juives de Belgique (CCOJB,) préface de Maurice Sosnowski et Serge Rozen, postface Willy Wolsztajn, Brussels, March 2015. «Arutz Sheva, Jun 15»
4
AMOUR SUITE ET FINS
Le Temps est cependant le troisième personnage de ce que, dans sa postface, Michel Schneider appelle modestement un «conte ... «La Croix, May 15»
5
Une vision philosophale du tombeau de François II
... la méditation cosmo-tellurique » : cette appréciation de l'éditeur Paul Sanda, dans la postface, résume assez bien l'ambiance de cet ouvrage ... «Breizh Info, Apr 15»
6
Memory and History: A Return to something meaningful
Postface de Gérard Namer (Paris: Albin Michel ; first edition, Paris: Librairie Alcan, 1925). Halbwachs, Maurice, 1997: La mémoire collective: ... «The Bible and Interpretation, Apr 15»
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Cinq kilos de science racontent 1500 ans de foi
... celles qui touchent des personnes encore vivantes, est plus délicat. C'est pourquoi notre abbé Joseph Roduit leur consacre une postface, ... «24heures.ch, Apr 15»
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Hasuike recounts day when secret North Korean agent asked him …
... because the country still wants to use Japanese abductees as bargaining cards in its negotiations with Japan,” Hasuike writes in the postface ... «Asahi Shimbun, Apr 15»
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Qui est Omar Aktouf ?
Un avis qui va dans le même sens que celui exprimé, en postface, par les Dr Ramon Cercos et Abdelkarim Errouaki, respectivement ... «Liberté-Algérie, Feb 15»
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Sofiya Tolstoy's Long-Lost Novella Sends Up the Sex-Hating …
No, NO! thundered Lev Nikolaevitch in a “Postface” he insisted be added to Kreutzer to clear things up: He stood behind every word of the ... «Slate Magazine, Feb 15»

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