AdverbHereafter the two companies will operate in full partnership.
We don't know what will happen hereafter. Noun
apologized, for being late to the meeting and assured his boss that there would be no such recurrences in the hereafter
hoped to be reunited with his deceased wife in the hereafter
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Adverb
Be a sigma men/women and ignore this worldly temporary stuff and make your Lord Happy and stay blessed here and hereafter.—Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025 Yet this reunion, and every one hereafter, will be incomplete without Tiant.—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
Now, a nearby planetary system has offered clues to our planet’s cosmic hereafter.—Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023 The Mass was officiated by Rev. Barry Windholtz, who spoke of the changes de Cavel might bring about in the sweet hereafter.—Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 16 Jan. 2023 See All Example Sentences for hereafter
Word History
First Known Use
Adverb
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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