hereafter
adverb
after this in time or order; at some future time; farther along.
hereafters
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pluralof hereafter.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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My belief is, anyway, that if there's hereafters for some things, there's hereafters for all.
From Humorous Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough
Yet though all this be so, nevertheless, in our own hearts, we mould the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.
From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville
And instead of the bare brown rafters, And the snowflakes sifting in, He saw in the glad hereafters, The home his hands should win.
From The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems by Kate Seymour MacLean
Under the bare brown rafters, In his garret bed he lay, And dreamed of the bright hereafters.
From The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems by Kate Seymour MacLean
