Thereafter Meaning
/ˌðɛəɹˈɑːf.tə(ɹ)/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
advAfter that time, from then on; thenceforth.
advAfter that (the thing aforementioned).
Sentence Examples
Thereafter we heard no more from him.
Thereafter, he was gradually promoted until he became company president.
She married at 17 and gave birth to her first child shortly thereafter.
CEFR Practice Quiz
He graduated in 2000 and ____ moved to New York for work.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
They moved to the city in the spring and shortly ____ they both found very good and well-paying jobs today.
Word Origin & History
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”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1899, John Buchan, No Man's Land:
""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.""
— 1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:
"He chuckled, and thereafter spoke no more. He did not stir as I passed by him and went down into the cabin."
— 1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
"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."
— 1946, Jack Finegan, “Ephesus”, in Light from the Ancient Past: The Archeological Background of the Hebrew-Christian Religion, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press; London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, part VI (Following Paul the Traveler), chapter 2 (The Work of Paul), page 265:
"But a signal check at Tollerton was not expected and the driver had to "step on it" thereafter, to reach Darlington, as we did, dead on time."
— 1959 July 26, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 482:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He graduated in 2000 and ____ moved to New York for work.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
They moved to the city in the spring and shortly ____ they both found very good and well-paying jobs today.