posthumous /'postjumas; 'pastjumos/ adj 1 (of a child) born after the death of its father. (指小孩) 父死后出生的; 遺腹的。 2 coming or happening after death: 死后出現(xiàn)或發(fā)生的; 身后的： ~ fame; 死后的聲譽(yù); a ~ novel, published after the author's death; 作者死后出版的小說(shuō); the ~ award of a Victoria Cross. 死后頒胴的維多利亞十字勛章。 ~ly adv