postscript

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a note added to a letter after the signature, usually introduced by P.S.

   In a brief postscript, Maya added the address of her new apartment.

2. 2
   noun

   an addition or concluding development that follows a completed text, account, or event

   The documentary's postscript explains what happened to the family ten years later.

From New Latin postscriptum, 'something written afterward,' the neuter past participle of Latin postscribere, from post ('after') + scribere ('to write'). The broader sense of a later addition grew from the note traditionally placed below a letter's signature.

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