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Meaning of aftergame | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A second game played to reverse the outcome of the first; the means employed after the first turn of affairs.
    archaic
  2. Bonus features, dialogue, etc. accessed when a previously-beaten video game is revisited.

Examples

“1597, Michael Drayton, Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling, 1603, “Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk, to Mary the French Queene,” Twere ouer-sight in that at which we ayme, / To put the hazard on an after-game;”
“so many thousand faithfull and valiant English men, who left us in this libertie, bought with thir lives; losing by a strange after game of folly, all the battels we have wonn,”
“Our first Design, my Friend, has proved abortive; / Still there remains an After-game to play:”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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