[usuallybeforenoun] happening, done, published, etc. after a person has died:
a posthumous award for bravery * A posthumous collection of her work has just been published.
posthumously adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for posthumous is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is posthumous a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, posthumous is tagged as adjective.
Does posthumous appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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