Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A world believed to exist for those in the afterlife.
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- noun A supposed world that is entered after death.
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- noun the place where you are after you die
Etymologies
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Examples
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[2] Could I have hazarded such a Germanism as the use of the word afterworld for posterity, -- "Es spreche Welt und Nachwelt meinen
The Death of Wallenstein Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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[2] Could I have hazarded such a Germanism as the use of the word afterworld for posterity, -- "Es spreche Welt und Nachwelt meinen
The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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Now She'ol in earlier Hebrew literature is the common place of abode for all the departed and is, therefore, as vague as "afterworld" or "grave."
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Peony and her mother (once she arrived in the afterworld), and the three of them together.
Random House Reader's Circle chats with with Lisa See about Peony in Love 2010
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LS: Spirits in the Chinese afterworld whether beloved ancestors or ghosts
Random House Reader's Circle chats with with Lisa See about Peony in Love 2010
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That you have no right to hope for a better afterworld until you have made this world better.
John Shook, Ph.D.: Where Can Naturalism And Religion Agree? Ph.D. John Shook 2011
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That you have no right to hope for a better afterworld until you have made this world better.
John Shook, Ph.D.: Where Can Naturalism And Religion Agree? Ph.D. John Shook 2011
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LS: Spirits in the Chinese afterworld whether beloved ancestors or ghosts
Random House Reader's Circle chats with with Lisa See about Peony in Love 2010
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It is this ghostly, lifeless afterworld that Mr. Misrach captured by setting up his view camera along the empty streets of this miniature version of Dresden or Hiroshima a week or so after the fire.
Following the Flames David Littlejohn 2011
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Peony and her mother (once she arrived in the afterworld), and the three of them together.
Random House Reader's Circle chats with with Lisa See about Peony in Love 2010
Wordplayer commented on the word afterworld
The WordNet definition is so disappointing compared to the other two.
January 20, 2012
yarb commented on the word afterworld
Ha ha. Wordnet is the Beavis and Butthead of internet lexicons.
January 20, 2012