hence
/ˈhɛns/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.38 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In the future from now.
adv
As a result; therefore, for this reason.
name
A male given name.
Example Sentences
- "I'm going hence, because you have insulted me."
- "Get thee hence, Satan!"
- "O Gertrude, come away: / The sun no ſooner ſhall the Mountaines touch, / But we will ſhip him hence,"
- "Ye men of Galilee! / Why stand ye looking up to heaven, where Him ye ne’er may see, / Neither ascending hence, nor returning hither again?"
- "`Now leave me,' she said, `and sleep if ye may. I must watch and think, for to-morrow night we go hence, and the time is long since I trod the path that we must follow.'"
- "After a long battle, my poor daughter was taken hence."
Etymology
A later Middle English spelling, retaining the voiceless -s, of hennes (henne + adverbial genitive ending -s), from Old English heonan (“away", "hence”), from a Proto-West Germanic *hin-, from Proto-Germanic *hiz, and Proto-Germanic *-anē. Cognate with Old Saxon hinan, Old High German hinnan (German hinnen), Dutch heen, Swedish hän. Related to Old English her (“here”).