Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Immediately following this in time, order, or place; after this.
- adv. In a future time or state: hope to win salvation hereafter.
- n. The afterlife: belief in a hereafter.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- After this time; in time to come; in some future time or state.
- That is to be; future.
- n. A future state; the future.
Wiktionary
- adv. In time to come; in some future time or state.
- adv. From now on
- n. A future existence or state.
- n. Existence after death.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In time to come; in some future time or state.
- n. A future existence or state.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc.
- adv. in a future life or state
- n. the time yet to come
- adv. following this in time or order or place; after this
- n. life after death
Etymologies
- Old English hræfter. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If the hereafter is anything like its filmic namesake, then it will turn out to be glacially slow, eternally boring, and pointless, with seemingly random plot lines aimlessly wandering about the ethereal landscape.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Shermer: The Eternally Boring Hereafter
“Indeed that refusal, which removes any political legitimacy from the Treaty and from any further act of integration hereafter, is likely further to poison our relationship with the EU as any government trying to propel us into such integration will lack the authority of and consent of the British people so to do.”
“The choice hereafter is more nearly up to us as individuals than it has ever been before, which is to say that our responsibilities have never been greater.”
“The snowball effect for all industries and products hereafter is yet to come.”
“At any rate, the choice hereafter is more nearly up to us as individuals than it has ever been before, which is to say that our responsibilities have never been greater.”
“I suggest, therefore, as a guiding principle of American foreign policy, that we abstain hereafter from military intervention in the internal affairs of other countries under any circumstances short of a clear and certain danger to our own national security, and that we adhere to this principle whether others, including the Russians and the Chinese, do so or not.”
“For that loose ribaldry I shall have a word hereafter, if the jury desire to hear it.”
“Virginia under the terms hereafter provided, to-wit.”
“I propose, therefore, to give my name hereafter only to such askers as can furnish me proof by intelligent comment upon it that they have read some book of mine.”
“Your lies and calumnies about my political life I will examine forthwith; for that loose ribaldry I shall have a word hereafter, if the jury desire to hear it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hereafter’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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EN - Glasgow stop list
Words to be replaced by a paragraph mark if you are after terms and MWEs.
yours, yourself, yet, your, without, you, within, will, yourselves, would, why, with and 291 more...
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life, death, rebirth
vale of tears, aborning, transmigration, reincarnate, nativity, nascence, metempsychosis, palingenesis, againrising, psychopannychism, thnetopsychism, shuffle off this ... and 104 more...
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Notable
undulate, priaprism, alphanumeric, conjure, love, roughshod, helpless, palatial, chortle, swimmingly, mustachioed, symbiotic and 21 more...
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afters
aftermath, after-tax, aftertaste, afterworld, afterword, after hours, after glow, after-hours, after-shave, after the fact, after-wit, afternoon and 44 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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hard to sense
somewhat, somewhere, elsewhere, whereby, likewise, spite, ever, along, otherwise, whatever, whichever, hitherto and 116 more...
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A Matter Of Time
Favorite time-related words.
vespertine, twilight, gloaming, eftsoon, eventide, dawn, eos, dusk, witching hour, ephemeral, candlemark, autumnal and 122 more...
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Legislationie: The Habeas Corpus Act ...
An act for the better securing the liberty of the subject, and for prevention of imprisonments beyond the seas.
WHEREAS great delays have been used by sheriffs, gaolers and other offi...of the peace, the hand and seal of, signed and sealed, jurisdiction, hath, order, recognizances, cognizable, properly, city, county, gaol-delivery and 120 more...
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Units Of Language
Word:
-a unit of language consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning.sulk, promenade, skulk, idle, subsequently, moody, paroxysm, felony, anent, generic, hallucinogen, synaesthesia and 215 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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ash
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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time zones
time zone, transient, hitherto, now, meanwhile, hereafter, henceforth, forthwith, ere, while, hebdomadally, sometimes and 9 more...
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LoverlyHeather's Words
hero, neologism, hereafter, kerfuffle, nerd, quiet, simple, fantastic, lovely, sew, darn, mend and 12 more...
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H
hazy, hollow, hazel, huggles, hullabaloo, honeysuckle, hush, husk, humble, hymn, halo, honey and 11 more...
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claudiob's list
guilloché, hypotrochoid, jitter, applewoman, unemmathompsonable, unboyfriendable, thoroughgoing, gaybackward, hereafter, timbrally, undeserving, howry and 2 more...
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