Definition of hence

What does the word hence mean?

• part of speech: adverb

  (Archaic) from here; (poet., rhet.) h.!, go away, h. with, away with, take away, go h., die; henceforth, henceforward, from this time forward; five years h., in five years\' time from now; as a result from this; as an inference from this (h. it appears that), therefore. [middle English]