afterworld
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8.4
- noun
- /ˈæftərˌwɜrld/
- Literature
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- Maybe once he gets down to the afterworld, the afterlife, he will encounter those who truly do have wisdom.
And this poem imagines her in the afterworld sea with other young girls.
- And this poem imagines her in the afterworld sea with other young girls.
- Maybe once he gets down to the afterworld, the afterlife, he will encounter those who truly do have wisdom.
Examples
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Many religions offer different beliefs about what happens in the afterworld.
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'Cause in this life, things are much harder than in the afterworld.
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All died, save only the strange traveller himself, who lay near death and without strength, but who would not pass into the afterworld."
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Offerings included cooked food and paper objects burned for the use of the dead in the afterworld.
Academic text (1992) -
All ponds are openings to that distant afterworld, you know.
Fiction book (1996) -
Paragraphs 4 to 8 then relate Christina's death, trip through the afterworld, and resurrection.
Academic text (2007) -
She'd be in the afterworld, having a ball with all the virtuous dead: her grandparents and a childhood friend who'd died of leukemia.
Fiction book (1998) -
In ancient Egypt, the afterworld was seen as a beautiful place where the dead would live forever.
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According to some myths, the hero journeyed to the afterworld to rescue his loved ones.
Synonyms
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5.1
A life people believe exists after a person dies
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8.8
A dark world below the earth where the dead live
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6.9
In a life that people believe happens after you die
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8.6
A place people imagine where they go after they die
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9.9
A place beyond the living world where spirits live
A peaceful and pleasant life after death that gives comfort
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Afterworld comes from the simple parts after ('later') and world ('the place we live'), so it simply means the 'world after' life. It is like the word afterlife, and that's why people use afterworld to talk about the place they imagine exists after death.