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单词 afterworld
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afterworldn.

Brit. /ˈɑːftəwəːld/, /ˈaftəwəːld/, U.S. /ˈæftərˌwərld/
Forms: see after- prefix and world n.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: after- prefix, world n.
Etymology: < after- prefix + world n.
1. A future state of existence; a later generation; the world of the future; future generations considered collectively; posterity. Now rare.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [noun] > collectively
bairn-teamc885
kinc950
seedOE
teamOE
offspringOE
kindOE
childrenc1175
lineage1303
generationa1325
issuea1325
successiona1340
kindredc1350
progenya1382
posterityc1410
sequelc1440
ligneea1450
posterior1509
genealogy1513
propagation1536
racea1547
postery1548
after-spring1583
bowela1593
afterworld1594
loin1608
descendance1617
succession1618
proles1640
descent1667
ramage1936
1594 M. Drayton Ideas Mirrour vii. sig. B4 Now passe on Time, to after-worlds tell this, Tell truelie Time what in thy time hath beene.
1596 Vlysses vpon Aiax sig. B2 v The afterworlde shall rather pittie your lost time.
1623 W. Drummond Cypresse Groue in Flowres of Sion 61 That to after-worlds thou mightst leaue some monument that once thou wast.
1842 F. Jones tr. C. von Rotteck Gen. Hist. World III. 226 The nation saw..its heroic friends..die upon the scaffold; and the after-world mentions their names with love.
1864 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 7) 327 He planned a poem, such as a man might name, Prophetic, of Time's afterworld.
1885 M. Arnold Poems III. 244 Action I had not, followers, fame; I pass'd obscure, alone. The after-world forgets my name, Nor do I wish it known.
1913 G. Murray Euripides & his Age ii. 50 The judgement of the afterworld upon them will depend on the side we take in a never-ending battle.
2. A world entered after death; the world of the afterlife. Frequently with the.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun]
bliss971
heavenOE
paradiseOE
towera1240
seatc1275
heavenwarda1300
Abraham's bosomc1300
tabernaclea1340
wonea1350
sanctuary1382
pasturec1384
firmament1388
sky?1518
Canaan1548
welkin1559
happy land1562
sphere?1592
heavenwards1614
afterworld1615
patria1707
god-home1848
overworld1858
the invisible1868
the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > non-Christian
heaveneOE
other worldOE
paradise?a1425
pantheon?1545
Olympus1582
Hesperidesa1592
tian1613
afterworld1615
Swarga1734
goddery1811
Pure Land1819
Reinga1820
Tir-na-nog1889
Jodo1901
sand-hill1949
1615 E. Hoby Curry-combe iv. 181 He speaks of the state of th' elect in the after-world.
1645 J. Ussher Body of Divinitie 246 In this world, Gods Children are subject to the fiery tryall, but after these troubles, rest is provided for them,..and no fire to be feared in that after world.
1793 R. G. Lee Ransom of Manilla i. ii. 11 Endless torment, Inherent to the act of suicide, In after worlds.
1833 T. Semmes Poems by Collegian 32 It might be A glorious home in the afterworld, In which to live with thee.
1867 C. T. Brooks tr. L. Schefer Layman's Breviary 36 How many thousand human hearts once yearned, In Egypt, in Eleusis, on the Indus,—Yearned for the afterworld,—Elysium!
1887 H. S. Holland Christ or Eccles. 128 That great after-world for which..this age-long story of man is but a preparation.
1949 D. L. Sayers in tr. Dante Comedy I. Introd. 17 The positions they occupy in the Three Kingdoms of the After-world.
1981 A. Gray Lanark 489 Modern afterworlds are always infernos, never paradisos.
2005 C. Mann 1491 iii. viii. 245 The Maya saw the afterworld as a kind of endless, foggy sea.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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