aft of

idiom

: in back of : behind
There is an exit located just aft of the wing.

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My favorite was the Marina Bar, in the aft of the ship. Taylor Eisenhauer, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Jan. 2026 Celebrity Cruises’ brightest and shiniest answers with a different kind of reinvention: At the aft of Deck 5, the boundary between ship and shore dissolves entirely at The Bazaar, reshaping a once-underactivated space in ways that sensorially redefine the Edge‑class experience. David Dickstein, Oc Register, 31 Dec. 2025 But the biggest differentiator is The Bazaar, the new indoor-outdoor destination hub at the aft of Deck 5. Josh Rivera, USA Today, 24 Nov. 2025 Unlike the closed-coupe Chiron, which cocoons you from its inner workings, the Mistral delivers a raw mechanical sound bath, tempered only by a pop-in wind deflector (fixed in examples for North America)—just aft of the seats—that reduces cabin turbulence and shields air-flow. Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 20 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for aft of

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“Aft of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aft%20of. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.

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