hence

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   from this time

   a year hence it will be forgotten

2. 2
   adv

   from this place

   get thee hence!

3. 3
   adv

   From here, from this place, away.

   I'm going hence, because you have insulted me.

4. 4
   adv

   From the living or from this world.

   After a long battle, my poor daughter was taken hence.

5. 5
   adv

   In the future from now.

   A year hence it will be forgotten.

6. 6
   adv

   As a result; therefore, for this reason.

   I shall go to Japan and hence will not be here in time for the party.

7. 7
   intj

   Go away! Begone!

   Zuc[cone]. Hence auant I will marie a woman with no wombe, a creature with two noſes, a wench with no haire rather then remarie thee, […]

8. 8
   adv

   (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result

Etymology

A later Middle English spelling, retaining the voiceless -s, of hennes (henne + adverbial genitive ending -s), from Old English heonan (“away", "hence”), from a Proto-West Germanic *hin-, from Proto-Germanic *hiz, and Proto-Germanic *-anē. Cognate with Old Saxon hinan, Old High German hinnan (German hinnen), Dutch heen, Swedish hän. Related to Old English her (“here”).