hereafter








adverb

  1. after this in time or order; at some future time; farther along.
  2. in the time to follow; from now on: Hereafter I will not accept their calls.
  3. in the life or world to come.
  4. hereinafter.

noun

  1. a life or existence after death; the future beyond mortal existence.
  2. time to come; the future.

adverb

  1. formal in a subsequent part of this document, matter, case, etc
  2. a less common word for henceforth
  3. at some time in the future
  4. in a future life after death

noun the hereafter

  1. life after death
  2. 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.

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