hereafter

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English

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Etymology

From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”). By surface analysis, here +‎ after.

Pronunciation

Adverb

hereafter (not comparable)

  1. (dated) In time to come; in some future time or state.
  2. From now on.
  3. Sequentially after this point (in time, in the writing constituting a document, in the movement along a path, etc.)

Synonyms

Translations

from now on — see from now on

See also

Noun

hereafter (countable and uncountable, plural hereafters)

  1. (uncommon) A future existence or state.
    Synonyms: thereafter, aftertime, see also Thesaurus:the future
  2. (poetic, uncommon) Existence after death.
    Synonyms: thereafter, afterlife, eternal life, see also Thesaurus:life after death or Thesaurus:afterlife
    • 1712, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy, act 5, scene 1:
      'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; / 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, / and intimates eternity to man.

Derived terms

Translations

existence after death — see afterlife

Adjective

hereafter (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Future.

Synonyms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hereafter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

See also

Here-, there-, and where- words

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