hereafter

/hɪərˈæftər/

/hɪəˈæftə/

Other forms: hereafters

You can use the adverb hereafter to talk about what happens next, after this moment. For example, you might say, "I will hereafter get my homework done in time."

When you mean "from now on," you can say hereafter, like when you give a friend a new nickname: "You will hereafter be known as Brostache." Another kind of hereafter is what happens after death. When someone talks specifically about "the hereafter," he usually means heaven or life after death. This is the earliest meaning of the word, and it's often mentioned in religious contexts and at funerals.

Definitions of hereafter

1. adverb

   following this in time or order or place; after this
   “hereafter you will no longer receive an allowance”
2. adverb

   in a future life or state
   “hope to win salvation hereafter”
3. adverb

   in a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc.
   synonyms: hereinafter, hereunder
4. noun

   the time yet to come
   synonyms: future, futurity, time to come

   types:

   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

   type of:

   time

   the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
5. noun

   life after death
   synonyms: afterlife

   types:

   kingdom come

   the next world

   immortality

   perpetual life after death

   type of:

   life, life-time, lifespan, lifetime

   the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)