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Rhymes with -ɑːftə(ɹ), -æftə(ɹ)

From Old English hēræfter (“in the aftertime; later on”). By surface analysis, here + after.

not comparable From now on. I WON'T give you any excuse hereafter for accusing me of neglecting to write. It is you that must take care that with all your leisure you keep up with me.
not comparable Sequentially after this point (in time, in the writing constituting a document, in the movement along a path, etc.)
dated, not comparable In time to come; in some future time or state. She should have died hereafter; / There would have been a time for such a word.

countable, uncommon, uncountable A future existence or state.
countable, poetic, uncommon, uncountable Existence after death. 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; / 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, / and intimates eternity to man.