after part

1. 1.

   the rear part of a ship

   Synonymssternquarterpooptail

   Broaderrear

   Part ofship

   Partsescutcheonskeg

Questions about after part

What does after part mean?

after part means "the rear part of a ship".

What is another word for after part?

Close synonyms include stern, quarter, poop, tail. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is after part a common word?

after part is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.