posthumously

1. 1.

   after death

   “these piano pieces were published posthumously”

   “he was honored posthumously”

Questions about posthumously

What does posthumously mean?

posthumously means "after death".

How many syllables are in posthumously?

posthumously has 4 syllables: pos-thu-mou-sly. The stress falls on "pos". In IPA it is /ˈpɑstʃʊməsli/.

Is posthumously a common word?

posthumously is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.