afterworld

English

Alternative forms

• after-world

Etymology

From after +‎ world.

Pronunciation

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Noun

afterworld (plural afterworlds)

1. A supposed world that is entered after death; the realm of the afterlife.
   • 1596, John Harington, Ulysses upon Ajax‎^[1], London: Thomas Gubbins:

     […] 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.

   • 1773, James Swan, A Dissuasion to Great-Britain and the Colonies, from the Slave-Trade to Africa‎^[2], Boston: J. Greenleaf, Revised and abridged edition, Preface, page viii-ix:

     […] 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.

   • 1951, Herman Wouk, chapter 6, in The Caine Mutiny, Boston: Little, Brown, published 2013:

     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.

   • 1995, Kai Hansen, "Afterlife", Gamma Ray, Land of the Free.

     Do you believe in the afterworld / Or the afterlife?

Translations

supposed world that is entered after death

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 來生／来生 (zh) (láishēng), 來世／来世 (zh) (láishì), 陰間／阴间 (zh) (yīnjiān)

• Finnish: tuonpuoleinen (fi)
• Polish: zaświaty (pl) m pl
• Russian: загро́бный мир (ru) m (zagróbnyj mir)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can