adv.

1. Immediately following this in time, order, or place; after this.
2. In a future time or state: hope to win salvation hereafter.

n.

The afterlife: belief in a hereafter.

noun

Time that is yet to be: by-and-by, future. Idioms: time to come. See precede/follow, time.

n

Definition: life after death
Antonyms: life

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In the future.

The term hereafter is always used to indicate a future time—to the exclusion of both the past and present—in legal documents, statutes, and other similar papers.

IN BRIEF: adv. - The time yet to come; Following this in time or order or place; In a future life or state; In a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc.

This youth has joy unspeakable here and eternal happiness hereafter. — Harold B. Lee

Dansk (Danish)
adv. - herefter
n. - det hinsides

Nederlands (Dutch)
hiernamaals, in de toekomst, hierna, later

Français (French)
adv. - (Jur) ci-après
n. - l'au-delà

Deutsch (German)
adv. - in Zukunft, im Jenseits
n. - Jenseits

Ελληνική (Greek)
adv. - εφεξής, στο εξής, στο μέλλον
n. - το μέλλον, η μέλλουσα ζωή, η μετά θάνατον ζωή

Italiano (Italian)
aldilà

Português (Portuguese)
adv. - futuramente
n. - futuro (m), vida (f) futura

Русский (Russian)
затем, в дальнейшем, грядущее

Español (Spanish)
adv. - futuro, porvenir, más allá, otra vida
n. - futuro, vida después de la muerte

Svenska (Swedish)
adv. - nedan, i framtiden, i livet efter detta, härefter
n. - framtid, livet efter detta

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
此后, 来世, 将来

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
adv. - 此後, 來世, 將來
n. - 將來, 來世

한국어 (Korean)
adv. - 지금부터는, 내세에서, 차후로
n. - 미래, 내세

日本語 (Japanese)
adv. - 今後, 将来, 来世で
n. - 来世, あの世

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(ظرف) بعد, بعدئذ, في ما بعد (الاسم) المستقبل, الآخرة, الحياة الاخرويه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adv. - ‮מעתה והלאה, בעולם הבא, בעתיד‬
n. - ‮העולם הבא, העתיד, חיים לאחר המוות‬

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