afterlife

== English == === Etymology === From after- +‎ life. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɑːftəˌlaɪf/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈæftɚˌlaɪf/ === Noun === afterlife (plural afterlives or (rare, proscribed) afterlifes) A conscious existence after death; a supernatural life that follows one's natural life, in some worldviews. Synonyms: life after death, hereafter, eternal life Antonyms: forelife, beforelife 1715, Alexander Pope, The Temple of Fame, London: Bernard Lintott, Note to p. 16, ver. 5,[2] Those heroick Barbarians accounted it a Dishonour to die in their Beds, and rush’d on to certain Death in the Prospect of an After-Life […] 1891, Ambrose Bierce, “A Watcher by the Dead” in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, San Francisco: E.L.G. Steele, p. 175,[3] I, who have not a shade of superstition in my nature—I, who have no belief in immortality—I, who know […] that the after-life is the dream of a desire— The place believed to be inhabited by people who have died. Synonym: afterworld (countable, uncountable, now chiefly informal) The part of a person's life that follows a particular stage or event; later life. Synonym: aftercareer The effects of a person's actions, or their reputation, after death. 1662, Margaret Cavendish, The Several Wits, Scene 34, in Playes, London: John Martyn et al., p. 111,[11] […] poor poverty and birth, can be no hindrance to natural wit, for natural wit, in a poor Cottage, may spin an after-life, enter-weaving several colour’d fancies, and threeds of opinions, making fine and curious Tapestries to hang in the Chambers of fame, The events or situations that result from a particular event; the later reception, consumption or reworking of something, especially a cultural production such as a film, book, etc. Synonyms: aftercareer, aftermath Antonym: history 1969, Harry Zohn (translator), “The Task of the Translator” in Illuminations by Walter Benjamin, New York: Schocken Books, p. 71,[13] The history of the great works of art tells us about their antecedents, their realization in the age of the artist, their potentially eternal afterlife in succeeding generations. ==== Quotations ==== For quotations using this term, see Citations:afterlife. ==== Synonyms ==== See also Thesaurus:life after death, Thesaurus:afterlife ==== Translations ====