posthumousadjective
uk/ˈpɒs.tʃə.məs/us/ˈpɑːs.tʃə.məs/formalhappening after a person's death:
a posthumous award
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Death and dying
- be pushing up (the) daisies idiom
- bereave
- bite
- bury
- buy the farm idiom
- depart
- done
- drop
- expire
- foot
- gone
- in extremis
- inquest
- loss
- mortality
- peg
- road kill
- SIDS
- sudden infant death syndrome
- the disappeared
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posthumously
adverb uk/ˈpɒs.tʃə.məs.li/us/ˈpɑːs.tʃə.məs.li/
His last novel was published posthumously.