hereafter

alternative hereafters

1. not comparableFrom 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.

   1920, Cicero, translated by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, The Letters of Cicero: The Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order, volume 1 (hardcover), London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., page 4

   Synonyms: henceforth

2. not comparableSequentially after this point (in time, in the writing constituting a document, in the movement along a path, etc.)

   Synonyms: followed by

3. datednot comparableIn time to come; in some future time or state.

   She should have died hereafter; / There would have been a time for such a word.

   c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “Act V Scene V”, in Macbeth

   1 more example

   […] when hereafter he from war shall come / And bring his Trojans peace and triumph […]

   1693, John Dryden, The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache, translation of The Iliad by Homer

   Synonyms: someday

plural hereafters · alternative hereafters

1. countableuncommonuncountableA future existence or state.

   Synonyms: thereafter, aftertime

2. countablepoeticuncommonuncountableExistence after death.

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

   1712, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy, act 5, scene 1

   Synonyms: thereafter, afterlife, eternal life

alternative hereafters

1. archaicnot comparableFuture.

   Synonyms: unborn