transcription, транскрипция: [ hɪərɑ:ftə(r), -æft- ]
1.
Hereafter means from this time onwards. ( FORMAL, WRITTEN )
I realised how hard life was going to be for me hereafter.
= henceforth, from now on
ADV : ADV with cl
2.
In legal documents and in written English, hereafter is used to introduce information about an abbreviation that will be used in the rest of the text to refer to the person or thing just mentioned.
Michel Foucault (1972), The Archaeology of Knowledge; hereafter this text will be abbreviated as AK.
ADV : ADV with cl
3.
The hereafter is sometimes used to refer to the time after you have died, or to the life which some people believe you have after you have died.
...belief in the hereafter.
N-SING : usu the N
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Hereafter is also an adjective.
...the life hereafter...
ADJ : n ADJ