HEREAFTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hereafter mean? 

• HEREAFTER (noun)
  The noun HEREAFTER has 2 senses:

1. life after death

2. the time yet to come

  Familiarity information: HEREAFTER used as a noun is rare.

• HEREAFTER (adverb)
  The adverb HEREAFTER has 3 senses:

1. in a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc.

2. in a future life or state

3. following this in time or order or place; after this

  Familiarity information: HEREAFTER used as an adverb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEREAFTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Life after death

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

afterlife; hereafter

Hypernyms ("hereafter" is a kind of...):

life; life-time; lifespan; lifetime (the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hereafter"):

kingdom come (the next world)

immortality (perpetual life after death)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The time yet to come

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

future; futurity; hereafter; time to come

Hypernyms ("hereafter" is a kind of...):

time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hereafter"):

kingdom come (the end of time)

by-and-by (an indefinite time in the future)

offing (the near or foreseeable future)

tomorrow (the near future)

manana (an indefinite time in the future)

• HEREAFTER (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc.

Synonyms:

hereafter; hereinafter; hereunder

Context example:

the terms specified hereunder

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a future life or state

Context example:

hope to win salvation hereafter

Sense 3

Meaning:

Following this in time or order or place; after this

Context example:

hereafter you will no longer receive an allowance

 Context examples 

We turned back, on my humbly insinuating that it might be useful to me hereafter; and he told the clerk that the carrier had instructions to call for it at noon.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Station! station!—your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you, now or hereafter.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Was there any chance of his being hereafter useful to Sir Thomas in the concerns of his West Indian property?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"This funny tin man," she answered, "killed the Wildcat and saved my life. So hereafter you must all serve him, and obey his slightest wish."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Of him I shall have more to say hereafter; but you will note now that he was my own uncle, and brother to my mother.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I shall be able to appreciate the lives of the working people hereafter.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

No positive engagement indeed! after taking her all over Allenham House, and fixing on the very rooms they were to live in hereafter!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

But I was in a short time better accommodated, as the reader shall know hereafter, when I come to treat more particularly about my way of living.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In all probability he was already the richer of the two, and the Kellynch estate would as surely be his hereafter as the title.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)