afterworld en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From after + world.
Meanings
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A supposed world that is entered after death; the realm of the afterlife.
[…] a person […] to whom, be who he may, I return my thanks in this public manner; hoping he will meet with a reward in some future day, or after world if he does not in this.
1773, James Swan, A Dissuasion to Great-Britain and the Colonies, from the Slave-Trade to Africa, Boston: J. Greenleaf, Revised and abridged edition, Preface, page viii-ix:1995, Kai Hansen, "Afterlife", Gamma Ray, Land of the Free. Do you believe in the afterworld / Or the afterlife?
[…] your bookes shall be out worne in your age I warrant you. Onelie if some surviue by the mercy of a friends Library, the after-world shall rather pittie your lost time, then commende your diligence.
1596, John Harington, Ulysses upon Ajax, London: Thomas Gubbins:I’m finished now, but the last word on my life rests with you. If you turn out well, I can still claim some kind of success in the afterworld, if there is one.
1951, Herman Wouk, chapter 6, in The Caine Mutiny, Boston: Little, Brown, published 2013:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| afterworlds | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| after-world | alternative | lexicographic |
Translations (7)
cmn 來生 /来生 (supposed world that is entered after death) · ru загро́бный мир (supposed world that is entered after death) · cmn 陰間 /阴间 (supposed world that is entered after death) · fi tuonpuoleinen (supposed world that is entered after death) · cmn 來世 /来世 (supposed world that is entered after death) · pl zaświaty (supposed world that is entered after death) · bg задгро́бен свят (supposed world that is entered after death)