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)
- (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.
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- From now on.
Synonyms
- (from this point on [either temporally or spatially]): henceforth; from now on
See also
- Category:English pronominal adverbs
Noun
hereafter (countable and uncountable, plural hereafters)
- A future existence or state.
- Existence after death.
- Addison:
- 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter.
- Addison:
Synonyms
Derived terms
Adjective
hereafter (not comparable)
- (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
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