hereafter
Appearance
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”). By surface analysis, here + after.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /hɪɹˈæftɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hɪəˈɹɑːftə/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːftə(ɹ), -æftə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: here‧af‧ter
Adverb
[edit]hereafter (not comparable)
- (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.
- 1693, John Dryden, The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache, translation of The Iliad by Homer:
- […] when hereafter he from war shall come / And bring his Trojans peace and triumph […]
- From now on.
- Sequentially after this point (in time, in the writing constituting a document, in the movement along a path, etc.)
Synonyms
[edit]- (in time to come): someday; see also Thesaurus:one day
- (from now on): henceforth; henceforward; see also Thesaurus:henceforth
- (sequentially after this point): followed by; see also Thesaurus:subsequently or Thesaurus:then
Translations
[edit]in time to come
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from now on — see from now on
sequentially after this point
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See also
[edit]Noun
[edit]hereafter (countable and uncountable, plural hereafters)
- (uncommon) A future existence or state.
- Synonyms: thereafter, aftertime, see also Thesaurus:the future
- (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
[edit]Translations
[edit]future existence
existence after death — see afterlife
Adjective
[edit]hereafter (not comparable)
Synonyms
[edit]- unborn; see also Thesaurus:future
See also
[edit]- (about) hereabout, thereabout, whereabout
- (abouts) hereabouts, thereabouts, whereabouts
- (after) hereafter, thereafter, whereafter
- (against) hereagainst, thereagainst, whereagainst
- (again) thereagain
- (among) hereamong, thereamong, whereamong
- (amongst) hereamongst, thereamongst, whereamongst
- (anent) hereanent, thereanent, whereanent
- (around) therearound, wherearound
- (as) thereas, whereas
- (at) hereat, thereat, whereat
- (before) herebefore, therebefore
- (beside) therebeside
- (between) therebetween, wherebetween
- (by) hereby, thereby, whereby
- (fore) herefore, therefore, wherefore
- (for) herefor, therefor, wherefor
- (from) herefrom, therefrom, wherefrom
- (hence) herehence, therehence
- (in after) hereinafter, thereinafter, whereinafter
- (in before) hereinbefore, thereinbefore, whereinbefore
- (in) herein, therein, wherein
- (in soever) whereinsoever
- (into) hereinto, thereinto, whereinto
- (in which) whereinwhich
- (of) hereof, thereof, whereof
- (on) hereon, thereon, whereon
- (out) hereout, thereout, whereout
- (somever) wheresomever
- (tofore) heretofore, theretofore, wheretofore
- (to) hereto, thereto, whereto
- (under) hereunder, thereunder, whereunder
- (unto) hereunto, thereunto, whereunto
- (upon) hereupon, thereupon, whereupon
- (withal) herewithal, therewithal, wherewithal
- (with) herewith, therewith, wherewith
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