hereafter

adverb

1. 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. 2

   Sequentially after this point (in time, in the writing constituting a document, in the movement along a path, etc.)

3. 3

   datedIn 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 […]

noun

1. 1

   A future existence or state.

2. 2

   Existence after death.

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

adjective

1. 1

   archaicFuture.

Forms

plural

hereafters