thereafter
/ˌðɛɹˈæf.tɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
After that time, from then on; thenceforth.
adv
After that (the thing aforementioned).
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: afterward, afterwards"
- "He left; thereafter we never met again."
- "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."
- ""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.""
- "He chuckled, and thereafter spoke no more. He did not stir as I passed by him and went down into the cabin."
- "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."
Etymology
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: therafter, þǣræfter
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌðɛɹˈæf.tɚ/
- British English: /ˌðɛəɹˈɑːf.tə(ɹ)/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form