hereafter
Syllables: here·af·terUK/hɪəˈɹɑːftə//hɪɹˈæftɚ/
hereafter adverb: from now on.
Adverb
hereafter (not comparable)
- 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, Cicero, translated by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, The Letters of Cicero: The Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order, volume 1 (hardcover), London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., page 4
- Synonyms:
- henceforth
- Sequentially after this point (in time, in the writing constituting a document, in the movement along a path, etc.)
- Synonyms:
- followed by
- 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.c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “Act V Scene V”, in Macbeth
- […] when hereafter he from war shall come / And bring his Trojans peace and triumph […]1693, John Dryden, The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache, translation of The Iliad by Homer
- Synonyms:
- someday
Noun
hereafter (countable and uncountable, plural hereafters)
- A future existence or state.
- Synonyms:
- thereafter, aftertime
- Existence after death.
- 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; / 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, / and intimates eternity to man.1712, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy, act 5, scene 1
- Synonyms:
- thereafter, afterlife, eternal life
Adjective
hereafter (not comparable)
hereafter meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
hereafter in Hindi
- sequentially after this point
- एतत्पश्चात् etatpaścāt
- in time to come
- आइंदा āindā
hereafter in Tamil
- sequentially after this point
- இனிமேல் iṉimēl
hereafter in Urdu
- hereafter
- آخرت āxirat, آگے āge
hereafter in Bengali
- hereafter, afterlife
- আকিবত akibot
More languagesFewer languages
- hereafter in Telugu
- పైన paina
- hereafter in Malayalam
- ഇനി ini
- hereafter in Kannada
- ಇನ್ನು ಮುಂದೆ, ಇನ್ನು ಮೇಲೆ, ಆಮೇಲೆ, ಅನಂತರದಲ್ಲಿ
Examples of hereafter in a sentence
- Through the worship of Mahāmayā one gains success in this world as well as emancipation hereafter.
- Owing to his sugarcane habit, his stubby front teeth are all pretty much gone to the sweet hereafter.
- The transitory element of living called death, therefore, points from the nothingness of death to the everythingness of life hereafter.
Synonyms of hereafter
Forms of hereafter
| Adverb | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | hereafters |
| Noun | |
| plural | hereafters |
Origin of hereafter
From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”). By surface analysis, here + after.
Words formed from hereafter
Words that rhyme with hereafter
Questions about hereafter
- What does hereafter mean?
- Hereafter means from now on.
- What is hereafter in Hindi?
- Hereafter in Hindi is एतत्पश्चात् (etatpaścāt), आइंदा (āindā). See Hereafter meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is hereafter?
- Hereafter can be an adverb, a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce hereafter?
- Hereafter is pronounced /hɪɹˈæftɚ/ (US).
Words near hereafter in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hereafter (page history and authors); آخرت (Urdu) (page history and authors); আকিবত (Bengali) (page history and authors); ഇനി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); hereafter (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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