hereupon

1. 1.

   immediately after this

   “hereupon, the passengers stumbled aboard”

Questions about hereupon

What does hereupon mean?

hereupon means "immediately after this".

How many syllables are in hereupon?

hereupon has 4 syllables and divides as he-re-u-pon under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is hereupon a common word?

hereupon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.