postprandial
after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
Origin of postprandial
1Other words from postprandial
- post·pran·di·al·ly, adverb
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How to use postprandial in a sentence
A good dinner solves many a difficulty, whilst the post-prandial cigar and a glass of grog, like faith, removes mountains.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowNone of them impressed me with a very high idea of English post-prandial oratory.
Our Old Home, Vol. 2 | Nathaniel HawthorneFor, fired with a post-prandial ambition to obtain a cannon ball, he took to himself a long bamboo, and poked at the tree.
At Last | Charles KingsleyThere was a dinner at Delmonico's, from whose program of post-prandial oratory I had purposely caused my own name to be omitted.
Marse Henry (Vol. 2) | Henry WattersonTommy Heinz grew thinner and thinner, while Pete nursed sharp post-prandial stomach pains.
PRoblem | Alan Edward Nourse
British Dictionary definitions for postprandial
/ (pəʊstˈprændɪəl) /
of or relating to the period immediately after lunch or dinner: a postprandial nap
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