thereafter
/ˌðɛəɹˈæf.tə(ɹ)//ˌðɛəɹˈɑːf.tə(ɹ)/
thereafter adverb: after that time, from then on; thenceforth.
Adverb
thereafter (not comparable)
- After that time, from then on; thenceforth.
- Near-synonyms: afterward, afterwards
- He left; thereafter we never met again.
- Synonyms:
- afterward, afterwards
- Antonyms:
- therebefore
- After that (the thing aforementioned).
- The little dog was off like a shot, and the children went running thereafter.
- This structure is not, as it seems at first sight, a papilla, but forms a ridge crossing the ventral aspect of the worm. Caudad of this prominence the bursa begins. The first ray (Fig. 67), long and thin with a characteristic curve, has its papilla on the external surface of the bursa. It obviously...1914 July, Clayton Lane, “Bursate nematodes from the Indian elephant”, in Indian Journal of Medical Research, volume 2, number 1, page 395
- Antonyms:
- therebefore
Noun
thereafter (countable and uncountable, plural thereafters)
- Synonym of hereafter (“future existence or state”).
- Synonyms:
- hereafter
- Synonym of hereafter (“existence after death”).
- A mimed sequence might enliven Johnny's visit to the great thereafter; or the battle royal might be painted on a backdrop.2022, Jody Enders, Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries, →ISBN, page 243
- Synonyms:
- hereafter
thereafter meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
thereafter in Tamil
- அதன்பிறகு, அதன்பின்
thereafter in Urdu
- بعدازاں
thereafter in Bengali
- thereafter, after that, then
- তৎপর totpor
- thereafter
- তবে tobe
thereafter in Telugu
- thereafter, then, subsequently
- తదనంతరము tadanantaramu
More languagesFewer languages
- thereafter in Malayalam
- അനന്തരം anantaraṁ
- thereafter in Kannada
- ಅನಂತರ, ಅಲ್ಲಿಂದ ಮುಂದೆ, ತರುವಾಯ, ಬಳಿಕ
- thereafter in Gujarati
- ત્યારપછી
Examples of thereafter in a sentence
- The Lent term had pulled me down, a week of modest enjoyment thereafter in town had finished the work; and I drank in the sharp moorish air like a thirsty man who has been forwandered among deserts.1899, John Buchan, No Man's Land:
- Then, having used up the powers of the Golden Cap, I shall give it to the King of the Monkeys, that he and his band may thereafter be free for evermore."1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:
- He chuckled, and thereafter spoke no more.1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
- About 133 b.c. the last king of Pergamum, Attalus III Philometor, bequeathed Ephesus, together with the rest of the Pergamenian kingdom, to the Romans and thereafter it continued subject to them.1946, Jack Finegan, “Ephesus”, in Light from the Ancient Past: The Archeological Background of the Hebrew-Christian Religion, Princeton...
Synonyms of thereafter
Antonyms
Forms of thereafter
| Adverb | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | thereafters |
| Noun | |
| plural | thereafters |
Origin of thereafter
From Middle English therafter, theraftir, þerefter, þerafter, þeræfter, from Old English þǣræfter (“after that; thereafter”), equivalent to there + after. Cognate with Saterland Frisian deerätter (“thereafter”), West Frisian dêrefter (“behind that; thereafter”), Dutch daarachter (“behind that; thereafter”), German Low German daarachter (“behind that”), Danish derefter (“thereafter”), Swedish därefter (“thereafter”).
Words that rhyme with thereafter
Questions about thereafter
- What does thereafter mean?
- Thereafter means after that time, from then on; thenceforth.
- What is thereafter in Tamil?
- Thereafter in Tamil is அதன்பிறகு, அதன்பின். See Thereafter meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use thereafter in a sentence?
- The Lent term had pulled me down, a week of modest enjoyment thereafter in town had finished the work; and I drank in the sharp moorish air like a thirsty man who has been forwandered among deserts.
- What part of speech is thereafter?
- Thereafter can be an adverb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce thereafter?
- Thereafter is pronounced /ˌðɛəɹˈɑːf.tə(ɹ)/ (UK).
Words near thereafter in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: thereafter (page history and authors); thereafter (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); thereafter (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); তবে (Bengali) (page history and authors); తదనంతరము (Telugu) (page history and authors); അനന്തരം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); thereafter (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); thereafter (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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