Thereafter
[ðeər'ɑːftə] or [,ðɛr'æftɚ]
Definition
(adv.) from that time on; 'thereafter he never called again'.
Checker: Stella--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) After that; afterward.
(adv.) According to that; accordingly.
(adv.) Of that sort.
Editor: Nita
Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. [1]. Afterwards, subsequently, after that.[2]. Accordingly, according to that.
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Examples
- Life, through mankind, grew thereafter more and more distinctly conscious of itself and its world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Galileo soon thereafter greatly improved and increased its capacity, and was the first to direct it towards the heavens. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Two years thereafter, Mr. Emile Berliner of Washington had invented the _gramophone_, which consists in etching on a metallic plate the record of voice waves. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It was but a short time thereafter that he solved the knotty problem by an invention mentioned in a previous chapter. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Edison changed bookkeepers, but never thereafter counted anything real profit until he had paid all his debts and had the profits in the bank. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Nothing happened, however, to interfere with the successful running of the station, and for twenty years thereafter the same two dynamos continued to furnish light in Sunbury. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Thereafter Heraclius slowly relinquished all Syria, which he had so lately won back from the Persians, to his new antagonists. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thereafter she stood a little way apart, but not so far as I should have desired, for I had many little confidences to impart to my long-lost love. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Thereafter the Pyrenees remained their utmost boundary; they came no further into Western Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Xerxes was murdered in his palace about 465 B.C., and thereafter Persia made no further attempts at conquest in Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I am particular about this man, because he made a particular effect on me at that time, and because of what took place thereafter. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In every generation thereafter there is the evidence of men seeking for that better order to which they feel our world must come. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thereafter these expeditions became more and more an established process, and less and less vital events. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At last some of the older apes spoke to Tarzan on the subject, and for a month thereafter he remained constantly with the tribe. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Thereafter not a man was lost of all the hundreds that remained to pass from the main corridor to the branch. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Thereafter the Mongol story is one of division and decay. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Shortly thereafter a guard entered our compartment and dragged me to the deck. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The Greek states remained inert thereafter, neither troublesome nor helpful. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He quite understood and reciprocated my good intentions, as I had reason to know thereafter. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Brunel, shortly thereafter added several machines of his own invention to Randolph's method, and he established a large manufactory for the making chiefly of army shoes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Thereafter nothing held the Mongols in the Kharismian territories. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thereafter the struggle between the orders abated. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He lacks at birth and for a long time thereafter power to make his way physically, to make his own living. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The following day we came upon a herd of small thoats, and thereafter we were mounted and made good time. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Paul Jablochoff became soon thereafter extensively employed for electric lighting in Paris, and elsewhere in Europe. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Gillmore is ordered to report at Fortress Monroe by the 18th inSt., or as soon thereafter as practicable. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The result of the interview was that I installed for him my old Cincinnati apparatus, which was used thereafter for many years. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The gunpowder experiments of Huygens and Papin were not successful, but they were the progenitors of similar inventions made two centuries thereafter. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Thereafter I saw little of them, nor did I care to. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Thereafter Robespierre displayed a disposition to brood aloof from affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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