[1890–95; post- + vocalic]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blanket roll, bootstrap, honky-tonk, neoclassicism, pogeypost- is a prefix, meaning “behind,” “after,” “later,” “subsequent to,” “posterior to,”occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (postscript), but now used freely in the formation of compound words (post-Elizabethan; postfix; postgraduate; postorbital)
Examples of 'postvocalic' in a sentence
postvocalic
First and third plurals have postvocalic variants.
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