hereafter

English

Etymology

From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”); equivalent to here +‎ after.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /hɪɹˈæftɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɪəˈɹɑːftə/
• Hyphenation: here‧af‧ter

Adverb

hereafter (not comparable)

1. (dated) In time to come; in some future time or state.
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “Act V Scene V”, in Macbeth:

     She should have died hereafter; / There would have been a time for such a word.

   • Dryden:

     Hereafter he from war shall come.

2. From now on.

Synonyms

• (from this point on [either temporally or spatially]): henceforth; from now on

Translations

in time to come

• Bulgarian: после (bg) (posle), в бъдеще (v bǎdešte)
• Cherokee: ᎤᏩᎫᏗᏗᏒ (uwagudidisv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 此後 (zh), 此后 (zh) (cǐhòu)

• Dutch: hierna (nl)
• Finnish: tulevaisuudessa (fi)

• Maori: anamata
• Romanian: în viitor, de acum încolo, mai târziu
• Russian: зате́м (ru) (zatém)
• Telugu: పైన (te) (paina)
• Turkish: giderek (tr), zamanla (tr)

from now on — see from now on

See also

• Category:English pronominal adverbs

Noun

hereafter (countable and uncountable, plural hereafters)

1. A future existence or state.
2. Existence after death.
   • Addison:

     'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter.

Synonyms

• afterlife

Derived terms

• sweet hereafter

Translations

future existence

• Dutch: hierna (nl), hiernamaals (nl)
• Finnish: tulevaisuus (fi)
• Maori: āmuri, āmua, anamata

• Russian: бу́дущее (ru) n (búduščeje), гряду́щее (ru) n (grjadúščeje)
• Turkish: ahiret (tr), öteki dünya

existence after death — see afterlife

Adjective

hereafter (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Future.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• featherer