adj
Meaning 1
Future.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
hereafter
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /hɪɹˈæftɚ/
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Received-Pronunciation: /hɪəˈɹɑːftə/
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rhymes with -ɑːftə(ɹ)
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rhymes with -æftə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: HH IH0 R AE1 F T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adv
Meaning 2
From now on.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 3
Sequentially after this point (in time, in the writing constituting a document, in the movement along a path, etc.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 4
In time to come; in some future time or state.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A future existence or state.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncommon, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: thereafter, aftertime
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
Existence after death.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, poetic, uncommon, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: thereafter, afterlife, eternal life
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 7
following this in time or order or place; after this
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- hereafter you will no longer receive an allowance
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 8
in a future life or state
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- hope to win salvation hereafter
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 9
in a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc.
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the landlord demises unto the tenant the premises hereinafter called the demised premises
- the terms specified hereunder
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hereinafter, hereunder
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 10
the time yet to come
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: future, futurity, time to come
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: time
Narrower terms: kingdom come, by-and-by, offing, tomorrow, manana
noun
Meaning 11
life after death
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: afterlife
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: life, lifetime, life-time, lifespan
Narrower terms: kingdom come, immortality
History
Etymology
From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”). By surface analysis, here + after.
Across languages
Translations
43 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: после (posle) — in time to come
- Bulgarian: в бъдеще (v bǎdešte) — in time to come
- Cherokee: ᎤᏩᎫᏗᏗᏒ (uwagudidisv) — in time to come
- Chinese Mandarin: 此後 /此后 (cǐhòu) — in time to come
- Dutch: hierna — in time to come
- Finnish: tulevaisuudessa — in time to come
- German: künftig — in time to come
- German: in der Zukunft — in time to come
- Greek: εφεξής (efexís) — in time to come
- Hindi: आइंदा (āindā) — in time to come
- Italian: prima o poi — in time to come
- Italian: nel tempo a venire — in time to come
- Māori: anamata — in time to come
- Romanian: în viitor — in time to come
- Romanian: de acum încolo — in time to come
- Romanian: mai târziu — in time to come
- Russian: зате́м (zatém) — in time to come
- Swedish: hädanefter — in time to come
- Swedish: framdeles — in time to come
- Telugu: పైన (paina) — in time to come
- Turkish: giderek — in time to come
- Turkish: zamanla — in time to come
- German: später — sequentially after this point
- German: anschließend — sequentially after this point
- German: ab hier — sequentially after this point
- German: ab jetzt — sequentially after this point
- German: danach — sequentially after this point
- German: weiterhin — sequentially after this point
- Hindi: एतत्पश्चात् (etatpaścāt) — sequentially after this point
- Italian: di seguito — sequentially after this point
- Plautdietsch: wiedahans — sequentially after this point
- Spanish: en adelante — sequentially after this point
- Tamil: இனிமேல் (iṉimēl) — sequentially after this point
- Dutch: hierna — future existence
- Dutch: hiernamaals — future existence
- Finnish: tulevaisuus — future existence
- Māori: āmuri — future existence
- Māori: āmua — future existence
- Māori: anamata — future existence
- Russian: бу́дущее (búduščeje) — future existence
- Russian: гряду́щее (grjadúščeje) — future existence
- Turkish: ahiret — future existence
- Turkish: öteki dünya — future existence
Real reading context