hereafter
AdverbSubstantivAdjektivin Dialogen belegt
- Vereinigtes Königreich//hɪəˈɹɑːftə//
- Vereinigte Staaten//hɪɹˈæftɚ//
From now on.
Adverb
- 1
From now on.
I WON'T give you any excuse hereafter for accusing me of neglecting to write. It is you that must take care that with all your leisure you keep up with me.
- 2
Sequentially after this point (in time, in the writing constituting a document, in the movement along a path, etc.)
- 3
veraltendIn time to come; in some future time or state.
She should have died hereafter; / There would have been a time for such a word.
[…] when hereafter he from war shall come / And bring his Trojans peace and triumph […]
Herkunft
From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”). By surface analysis, here + after.
Substantiv
- 1
A future existence or state.
- 2
Existence after death.
'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; / 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, / and intimates eternity to man.
Adjektiv
- 1
altertümlichFuture.
Formen
- Plural
- hereafters