Thereafterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 therafter, theraftir, þerefter, þerafter, þeræfter, from 古期英語 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”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌðɛəɹˈɑːf.tə(ɹ)/
• (Northern England, other non-rhotic without the trap–bath split) IPA: /ˌðɛəɹˈæf.tə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌðɛɹˈæf.tɚ/
• 韻: -ɑːftə(ɹ), -æftə(ɹ)

副詞

thereafter (not comparable)

1. After that, from then on; thenceforth.

   He left; thereafter we never met again.

   • 1899, John Buchan, No Man's Land:

     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.

   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:

     "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."

   • 1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:

     He chuckled, and thereafter spoke no more. He did not stir as I passed by him and went down into the cabin.

等位語

• afterward

名詞

thereafter (countable and uncountable, plural thereafters)

1. (uncommon) Synonym of hereafter (“future existence or state”).
2. (poetic, uncommon) Synonym of hereafter (“existence after death”).
   • 2022, Jody Enders, Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries, →ISBN, page 243:

     A mimed sequence might enliven Johnny's visit to the great thereafter; or the battle royal might be painted on a backdrop.

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