'Hence' definitions:

Definition of 'hence'

From: WordNet
adverb
(used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result; "therefore X must be true"; "the eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory"; "we were young and thence optimistic"; "it is late and thus we must go"; "the witness is biased and so cannot be trusted" [syn: therefore, hence, thence, thus, so]
adverb
From this place; "get thee hence!"
adverb
From this time; "a year hence it will be forgotten"

Definition of 'Hence'

From: GCIDE
  • Hence \Hence\ (h[e^]ns), adv. [OE. hennes, hens (the s is prop. a genitive ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinn[=a]n, G. hinnen, OHG. hina, G. hin; all from the root of E. he. See He.]
  • 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Arise, let us go hence. --John xiv. 31. [1913 Webster]
  • I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. --Acts xxii. 21. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. From this time; in the future; as, a week hence. "Half an hour hence." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. From this reason; therefore; -- as an inference or deduction. [1913 Webster]
  • Hence, perhaps, it is, that Solomon calls the fear of the Lord the beginning of wisdom. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. From this source or origin. [1913 Webster]
  • All other faces borrowed hence Their light and grace. --Suckling. [1913 Webster]
  • Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts? --James. iv. 1. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Hence is used, elliptically and imperatively, for go hence; depart hence; away; be gone. "Hence with your little ones." --Shak. -- From hence, though a pleonasm, is fully authorized by the usage of good writers. [1913 Webster]
  • An ancient author prophesied from hence. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • Expelled from hence into a world Of woe and sorrow. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Hence'

From: GCIDE
  • Hence \Hence\, v. t. To send away. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'hence'

From: Moby Thesaurus