English Online Dictionary. What means thereafter? What does thereafter mean?
English
Alternative forms
- thereafters
Etymology
From Middle English therafter, theraftir, þerefter, þerafter, þeræfter, from Old English þǣræfter (“after that; thereafter”), equivalent to there + after. Cognate with Saterland Frisian deerätter (“thereafter”), West Frisian dêrefter (“behind that; thereafter”), Dutch daarachter (“behind that; thereafter”), German Low German daarachter (“behind that”), Danish derefter (“thereafter”), Swedish därefter (“thereafter”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌðɛəɹˈɑːf.tə(ɹ)/
- (Northern England, other non-rhotic without the trap-bath split) IPA(key): /ˌðɛəɹˈæf.tə(ɹ)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌðɛɹˈæf.tɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɑːftə(ɹ), -æftə(ɹ)
Adverb
thereafter (not comparable)
- After that, from then on; thenceforth.
- He left; thereafter we never met again.
Coordinate terms
- afterward
Translations
Noun
thereafter (countable and uncountable, plural thereafters)
- (uncommon) Synonym of hereafter (“future existence or state”).
- (poetic, uncommon) Synonym of hereafter (“existence after death”).