thereafter

alternative thereafters

1. not comparableAfter that time, from then on; thenceforth.

   Near-synonyms: afterward, afterwards

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   He left; thereafter we never met again.

   The Lent term had pulled me down, a week of modest enjoyment thereafter in town had finished the work; and I drank in the sharp moorish air like a thirsty man who has been forwandered among deserts.

   1899, John Buchan, No Man's Land

   "My third command to the Winged Monkeys," said Glinda, "shall be to carry you to your forest. Then, having used up the powers of the Golden Cap, I shall give it to the King of the Monkeys, that he and his band may thereafter be free for evermore."

   1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

   He chuckled, and thereafter spoke no more. He did not stir as I passed by him and went down into the cabin.

   1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC

   About 133 b.c. the last king of Pergamum, Attalus III Philometor, bequeathed Ephesus, together with the rest of the Pergamenian kingdom, to the Romans and thereafter it continued subject to them.

   1946, Jack Finegan, “Ephesus”, in Light from the Ancient Past: The Archeological Background of the Hebrew-Christian Religion, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press; London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, part VI (Following Paul the Traveler), chapter 2 (The Work of Paul), page 265

   Synonyms: afterward, afterwards · Antonyms: therebefore

2. not comparableAfter that (the thing aforementioned).

   The little dog was off like a shot, and the children went running thereafter.

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   A railway nearly 300 miles long has been built to tap the resources of the interior. Skirting the east and north-east shores of the bay, it crosses the valley of the Kiaochau River and the low divide between the two massifs of the Province, running thereafter westwards to Tsi-nan-fu, the capital. Built with German money, and controlled by German directors, the line is quite as much German as that of South Manchuria is Japanese—and with far less excuse. Ultimately, no doubt, the intention was to connect the Kiaochau–Tsi-nan-fu line with the Lu-Han—the main artery of the Chinese system—and thus make of Tsingtau an outlet for a large part of the trade which hitherto has passed through Tientsin and Chefoo.

   1914 October 1, “England and Germany in Shantung”, in The Fortnightly Review, volume 96, number 574, page 786

   Senator Townsend offered the following amendment: Amend the bill on pages 1 to 4, inclusive, by striking out all of Section I after the word "by," line 21, page 2, and add the following thereafter: "the Commissioner of Agriculture," and strike out all of Sections 2 and 3 of said bill. Senator Collins made the point of order that the above amendment was not germane to the bill, in that it sought to change the purposes of the bill, by placing the operation of the measure under the supervision of the agricultural department, whereas the bill provided for a marketing commissioner, etc. The Chair overruled the point of order.

   1914, “Journal of the Senate of Texas of the Second Called Session of the Thirty-Third Legislature, Convened August 24, 1914, and Adjourned September 22, 1914”, in Journal of the Senate of Texas, pages 210-211

   An automobile leaving Los Angeles and going westward over the splendid boulevard called "Sunset"—one of the main arteries of travel in the southwest—and a little northerly, will soon arrive at the sea-coast, or, in other words, at the beach resorts of Los Angeles. The district passed over in going to these beaches has been named Hollywood. It is a part of Los Angeles. The community, grown like a mushroom, now holds one hundred thousand souls, ten thousand of which are directly interested in the motion picture business. The main thoroughfare in Hollywood is called Hollywood Boulevard. It is a comparatively short street, branching off from Sunset Boulevard and running thereafter two blocks from Sunset and parallel to it. At the intersection of Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards still stands, though it is about to be obliterated owing to a recent fire, a wooden building, not large and not spacious, labelled with the title, Chester A. Bennett Studios,—a building that has some history attached to it, since it was originally the home of David Wark Griffith's activities, among the earliest in recent Hollywood history.

   1924, Marilynn Conners, “That Fascinating Hollywood”, in What Chance Have I in Hollywood? Intimate Information Concerning the Movie Capital of the World, Famous Authors Imprint, page 15

   Antonyms: therebefore

plural thereafters · alternative thereafters

1. countableuncommonuncountableSynonym of hereafter (“future existence or state”).

   Synonyms: hereafter

2. countablepoeticuncommonuncountableSynonym of hereafter (“existence after death”).

   A mimed sequence might enliven Johnny's visit to the great thereafter; or the battle royal might be painted on a backdrop.

   2022, Jody Enders, Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries, →ISBN, page 243

   Synonyms: hereafter