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[ af-ter-lahyf, ahf- ] / ˈæf tərˌlaɪf, ˈɑf- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR afterlife ON THESAURUS.COM
nounAlso called future life. life after death. the later part of a person's life: the remarkably productive afterlife of Thomas Jefferson. Origin of afterlifeFirst recorded in 1585–95; after + life Words nearby afterlifeafterhearing, afterheat, after-hours, afterimage, afterimpression, afterlife, afterlight, afterload, aftermarket, after mast, aftermath Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for afterlifeThis was so that in the afterlife, the dead could see and communicate with the living. See what these animal mummies are keeping under wraps|Helen Thompson|October 6, 2020|Science News For Students The religious narrative resolved our death anxiety through faith in an afterlife. On Transhumanism and Why Technology Is Our Silicon Nervous System|Jason Silva|April 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST Somewhere in the Afterlife, Laurence Sterne must have been tickled to see his fiendish book infused with new life. Crazy Cartography: Artists and Writers Conjure a Slew of Imaginative Maps|Lauren Elkin|April 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST In 2011 and 2012, about 40 percent of each published Archie comic went unsold; to date, every issue of Afterlife has sold out. Lena Dunham and the Renaissance of Archie Andrews (He’s Not Dead Yet)|Hugh Ryan|April 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Families can visit entire sculpture gardens featuring vivid depictions of what sinners face in the afterlife. Welcome to Buddhist Hell|Nina Strochlic|January 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST Arcade Fire kicked off the night with a live performance of “Afterlife.” The YouTube Music Awards Were Alarmingly Strange and Epically Cool|Kevin Fallon|November 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST The last rites freed one from life for an afterlife in which the deceased still watched over the living faithful. The Civilization of Illiteracy|Mihai Nadin And well the boy carried out his father's injunction in afterlife. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous|Sarah K. Bolton Why refuse a bit of sweetness to a tiny infant, perhaps destined to taste little of it in afterlife? A Top-Floor Idyl|George van Schaick And by that means I will learn where to search for him—how to trace his afterlife. The Cryptogram|William Murray Graydon And perhaps it was to a certain remorse in the tutor's mind that Elsmere owed an experience of great importance to his afterlife. Robert Elsmere|Mrs. Humphry Ward
British Dictionary definitions for afterlife
nounlife after death or at a later time in a person's lifetime Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to afterlifeimmortality, heaven, hereafter, eternity, the great beyond |