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Hereafter

//hɪɹˈæftɚ// adj, adv, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Future. archaic, not-comparable
Adverb
  1. 1
    From now on. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Sequentially after this point (in time, in the writing constituting a document, in the movement along a path, etc.) not-comparable
  3. 3
    In time to come; in some future time or state. dated, not-comparable

    "She should have died hereafter; / There would have been a time for such a word."

Adverb
  1. 1
    following this in time or order or place; after this wordnet
  2. 2
    in a future life or state wordnet
  3. 3
    in a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc. wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A future existence or state. countable, uncommon, uncountable
  2. 2
    the time yet to come wordnet
  3. 3
    Existence after death. countable, poetic, uncommon, uncountable

    "'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; / 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, / and intimates eternity to man."

  4. 4
    life after death wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”). By surface analysis, here + after.

Etymology 2

From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”). By surface analysis, here + after.

Etymology 3

From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”). By surface analysis, here + after.

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