Sekirov Dictionary

hereafter

UK /hɪəˈɹɑːftə/US /hɪɹˈæftɚ/

adverb 3
noun 2
adjective 1
forms 1
phrases 1

adverb3

•
From now on.
- I WON'T give you any excuse hereafter for accusing me of neglecting to write. It is you that must take care that with all your leisure you keep up with me. — 1920
Sequentially after this point (in time, in the writing constituting a document, in the movement along a path, etc.)
•
(old-fashioned) In time to come; in some future time or state.
- She should have died hereafter; / There would have been a time for such a word. — 1606

noun2

A future existence or state.
•
(literary) Existence after death.
- 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; / 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, / and intimates eternity to man. — 1712

adjective1

(no longer used) Future.

forms

hereafters

Phrases with hereafter

sweet hereafter
Heaven; paradise as enjoyed in the afterlife.

This dictionary works without the internet: on your phone · in Chrome