HEREUPON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hereupon mean? 

• HEREUPON (adverb)
  The adverb HEREUPON has 1 sense:

1. immediately after this

  Familiarity information: HEREUPON used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEREUPON (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Immediately after this

Context example:

hereupon, the passengers stumbled aboard

 Context examples 

Hereupon she was terrified, and said: Ah, heavens!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I was so much dismayed by these words, and particularly by the repetition of the last unknown one, which was a kind of rattle in his throat, that I could make no answer; hereupon the old man, still holding me by the hair, repeated: Oh, what do you want?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)