hence

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 60.18 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adverb From here, from this place, away.

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

2. adverb From the living or from this world.

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

3. adverb In the future from now.

   A year hence it will be forgotten.

4. adverb As a result; therefore, for this reason.

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

5. interjection Go away! Begone!
6. verb To utter "hence!" to; to send away.
7. verb To depart; to go away.

Similar words

thence therefore thus whence where henceforth then also subsequently here

Often followed by

the it we a they to there in he its