adverb
- after this in time or order; at some future time; farther along.
- in the time to follow; from now on: Hereafter I will not accept their calls.
- in the life or world to come.
- hereinafter.
noun
- a life or existence after death; the future beyond mortal existence.
- time to come; the future.
adverb
- formal in a subsequent part of this document, matter, case, etc
- a less common word for henceforth
- at some time in the future
- in a future life after death
noun the hereafter
- life after death
- the future
Old English heræfter (adv.) “in the future; later on;” see here + after. Meaning “after death” is mid-14c. As a noun, “time in the future,” from 1540s. Meaning “a future world, the world to come” is from 1702.