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afterlife

[af-ter-lahyf, ahf-]

noun

  1. Also called future life.life after death.

  2. the later part of a person's life.

    the remarkably productive afterlife of Thomas Jefferson.



afterlife

/ ˈɑːڳəˌɪ /

noun

  1. life 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
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of afterlife1

First recorded in 1585–95; after + life
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Experts associate the design with the god Odin, whose roles in Norse mythology included ferrying the dead to the afterlife.

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Longtime wrestling announcer Tony Schiavone called Sabu “an incredible talent that will obviously put someone through a table in the afterlife.”

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The story of "Report from Iron Mountain" and its strange afterlife caught my imagination for two reasons.

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His preserved body had an eventful afterlife all its own.

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Someone had the unsettling idea to play a recording of Aldous reading from his novel “Time Must Have a Stop” — a passage about a character's journey into the afterlife.

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