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Etymology

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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

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Adverb

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thereafter (not comparable)

  1. After that time, from then on; thenceforth.
    Antonym: therebefore
    Near-synonyms: afterward, afterwards
    He left; thereafter we never met again.
    • 1899, John Buchan, No Man's Land:
      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.
    • 1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:
      "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."
    • 1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
      He chuckled, and thereafter spoke no more. He did not stir as I passed by him and went down into the cabin.
    • 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:
      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.
    • 1959 July, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 482:
      But a signal check at Tollerton was not expected and the driver had to "step on it" thereafter, to reach Darlington, as we did, dead on time.
  2. After that (the thing aforementioned).
    Antonym: therebefore
    Coordinate terms: therewith, therewithout, therebeside, thereover, thereunder, thereon, therein, therebetween, thereamong
    The little dog was off like a shot, and the children went running thereafter.
    • 1914 July, Clayton Lane, “Bursate nematodes from the Indian elephant”, in Indian Journal of Medical Research‎[1], volume 2, number 1, page 395:
      This structure is not, as it seems at first sight, a papilla, but forms a ridge crossing the ventral aspect of the worm. Caudad of this prominence the bursa begins. The first ray (Fig. 67), long and thin with a characteristic curve, has its papilla on the external surface of the bursa. It obviously represents the prebursal papilla of those bursate nematodes which possess one. The next ray is equally long but wider. It arises at a slight distance from the first, approaches it and then diverges somewhat again. It is split for half its length only, the more cephalad part being the thinner, and the two papillæ in which it ends lying on the inner surface of the bursa. It is obviously the ventral ray with incomplete sub-divisions. The next three rays are quite obviously the three lateral rays. They lie nearly in apposition with incurved points, the most cephalad ending on the outer surface of the bursa, the other two on its inner surface. The externo-dorsal ray is long and thin, taking off from the main stem of the dorsal ray 0·15 mm. from its base, and ending on the outer surface of the bursa. At a point 0·25 mm. from the beginning of the dorsal ray it divides into its two main branches. These diverge gradually at an acute angle and then approach more abruptly, running thereafter side by side to diverge slightly at their tips. The total length of the dorsal ray is 1·7 mm. Viewed from the side it bends abruptly ventrad soon after giving off a small branch, which it does at a distance of 0·3 mm. from the base of the externo-dorsal ray, and then bends as abruptly into its original caudad direction.
    • 1914 October 1, “England and Germany in Shantung”, in The Fortnightly Review‎[2], volume 96, number 574, page 786:
      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, “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[3], pages 210-211:
      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.
    • 1924, Marilynn Conners, “That Fascinating Hollywood”, in What Chance Have I in Hollywood? Intimate Information Concerning the Movie Capital of the World‎[4], Famous Authors Imprint, page 15:
      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.

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Noun

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thereafter (countable and uncountable, plural thereafters)

  1. (uncommon) Synonym of hereafter (“future existence or state”).
  2. (poetic, uncommon) Synonym of hereafter (“existence after death”).
    • 2022, Jody Enders, Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries, →ISBN, page 243:
      A mimed sequence might enliven Johnny's visit to the great thereafter; or the battle royal might be painted on a backdrop.

See also

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Here-, there-, and where- words
Pronominal adverbs
about abouts above across after afters again against along among amongst anent1 around as at away beit before beside between beyond by ever for fore forth forward forwards from hence inabove inafter inbefore inbelow inelsewhere insoever into inunder mid2 of on out over so soever somedever3 somever3 through throughout to tofore unto up upon ward wards -wise with withal within without
hence — — — — henceafter — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — henceforth henceforward henceforwards hencefrom — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
here hereabout hereabouts hereabove — hereafter hereafters — hereagainst — hereamong hereanent — — hereat hereaway — herebefore — — — hereby — herefor herefore hereforth hereforward hereforwards herefrom herehence hereinabove hereinafter hereinbefore hereinbelow hereinelsewhere hereinsoever hereinto hereinunder heremid hereof hereon hereout hereover — — — — herethrough herethroughout hereto heretofore hereunto — hereupon — — — herewith herewithal herewithin herewithout
hither — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — hitherto — hitherunto — — hitherward hitherwards — — — — —
how — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — howbeit — — — — — however — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — howso howsoever howsomedever howsomever — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
that — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — thataway — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — thatwise — — — —
thence — — — — thenceafter — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — thenceforth thenceforward thenceforwards thencefrom — — — — — — — — — — — — thenceout — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
there thereabout thereabouts thereabove thereacross thereafter thereafters thereagain thereagainst therealong thereamong thereamongst thereanent therearound — thereat thereaway — therebefore therebeside therebetween therebeyond thereby therever therefor therefore thereforth — — therefrom therehence thereinabove thereinafter thereinbefore thereinbelow — — thereinto thereinunder theremid thereof thereon thereout thereover — theresoever — — therethrough therethroughout thereto theretofore thereunto thereup thereupon — — — therewith therewithal therewithin therewithout
this — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — thisaway — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — thiswise — — — —
thither — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — thitherinsoever — — — — — — — — — — — — — thitherto — — — — thitherward thitherwards — — — — —
what — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — whatever — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — whatso whatsoever whatsomedever whatsomever — — — — — — — — — whatwise — — — —
when whenabout whenabouts — — — — — — — — — — — whenas — — — — — — — — whenever — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — whenso whensoever — whensomever — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
whence — — — — whenceafter — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — whencever — — whenceforth whenceforward — whencefrom — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — whenceward whencewards — — — — —
where whereabout whereabouts whereabove — whereafter whereafters — whereagainst wherealong whereamong whereamongst whereanent wherearound whereas whereat whereaway — wherebefore wherebeside wherebetween wherebeyond whereby wherever wherefor wherefore whereforth — — wherefrom wherehence whereinabove whereinafter whereinbefore whereinbelow — whereinsoever whereinto whereinunder wheremid whereof whereon whereout whereover whereso wheresoever — wheresomever wherethrough wherethroughout whereto wheretofore whereunto whereup whereupon — — — wherewith wherewithal wherewithin wherewithout
whither — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — whitherever — — — — — — — — — — — — whitherinsoever — — — — — — — whitherso — — — — — whitherto whithertofore — — — whitherward whitherwards — — — — —
why — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — whyever whyfor — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — whyso whysoever — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
1. Scottish
2. from Middle English mid
3. old dialectal form
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