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Fromafter- +‎life.

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afterlife (pluralafterlivesor(rare, proscribed)afterlifes)

  2. Aconsciousexistence afterdeath; asupernatural life that follows one'snatural life, in someworldviews.
    Synonyms:life after death,hereafter,eternal life
    Antonyms:forelife,beforelife
    Many religious people believe in anafterlife.
    • 1614,Thomas Adams, “The Sinners Passing-Bell”, inThe Devills Banket‎[1], London: Ralph Mab, page219:
      Read in euery Starre, and let the Moone be your Candle to doe it, the prouident disposition of God, the eternitie of yourafter-life.
    • 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 anAfter-Life […]
    • 1891,Ambrose Bierce, “A Watcher by the Dead” inTales 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 theafter-life is the dream of a desire—
    • 2005,Tash Aw, chapter 6, inThe Harmony Silk Factory‎[4], New York: Riverhead Books, page67:
      Each person took this paper money and dropped it into a huge tin drum which held within it a fierce fire, a bonfire of heavenly money for Tiger’safterlife.
  4. Theplace believed to beinhabited by people who havedied.
    Synonym:afterworld
    You'll reunite later, somewhere in theafterlife.
    • 1985,Carl Sagan, chapter 20, inContact‎[5], New York: Simon and Schuster, page361:
      There were human cultures that taught anafterlife of the blessed on mountaintops or in clouds, in caverns or oases, but she could not recall any in which if you were very, very good when you died you went to the beach.
    • 2000,Zadie Smith,White Teeth, London: Hamish Hamilton,→ISBN,page434:
      He wanted to offer a little reminder that the world is cruel and pointless, all human endeavour ultimately meaningless, and no advancement in this world worth making besides gaining God’s favour and an entry ticket into the better half of theafterlife.
  6. (countable, uncountable, now chiefly informal) The part of a person's life that follows a particularstage orevent; later life.
    Synonym:aftercareer
    They say that life begins at 40, but right now I'm more interested in theafterlife that begins at 65!
    • 1631,John Barclay, chapter 13, inThe Mirrour of Mindes‎[6], London: Thomas Walkley, page120:
      Those Favorites as it is their first care, to hold up themselves in that height of grace, so alwayes make it their second endeavour to raise Estates, to get Offices and governments, that if they doe remove from that height of favour, yet they may still retaine some happy monument of their former power, and a stay to theirafter-life.
    • 1799,Hannah More, chapter 15, inStrictures on the Modern System of Female Education‎[7], volume 2, London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, page103:
      In early youth, not only love, but friendship, at first sight, grows out of an ill-directed sensibility; and inafter-life, women under the powerful influence of this temper[…] are too readily inclined to select for their confidential connections, flexible and flattering companions[…]
    • 1833,Alfred Tennyson, “Œnone”, inPoems‎[8], London: Moxon, page55:
      And all the colour of myafterlife / Will be the shadow of today.
    • 1855,Frederick Douglass, chapter 1, inMy Bondage and My Freedom‎[9], New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, page40:
      […] the sorrows of childhood, like the pleasures ofafter life, are transient.
    • 1937,Hugh Walpole,John Cornelius: His Life and Adventures‎[10], London: Macmillan, Part 2, Chapter 1:
      These trembling children have at least this consolation—that never, in theirafter lives, no, not when poison-gas blinds and chokes them, not when their wives betray them, not when men scorn them and spit upon them, will they know again such terror, despair and loneliness as in the happy carefree schooldays of their youth.
    • 2009,Hilary Mantel, “Marian Devotion”, inMantel Pieces, London: 4th Estate, published2020:
      Mary’s body was a battleground from the beginning. Who was she before the angel called? Why was she chosen, why not some other good girl? Did she suffer pain in childbirth? What was herafterlife? Did she have more children?
  8. Theeffects of a person's actions, or theirreputation, after death.
    The philanthropic endowment that she bequeathed gave her an ongoingafterlife.
    • 1662,Margaret Cavendish,The Several Wits, Scene 34, inPlayes, London: John Martynet al., p. 111,[11]
      […] poor poverty and birth, can be no hindrance to natural wit, for natural wit, in a poor Cottage, may spin anafter-life,enter-weaving several colour’d fancies, andthreeds of opinions, making fine and curious Tapestries to hang in the Chambers of fame,
    • 1709,Richard Steele, “The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq.”, inThe Tatler‎[12], number74, London, published1712, page162:
      Let every Man who votes consider, That he is now going to give away that, for which the Soldier gave up his Rest, his Pleasure, and his Life; the Scholar resign’d his whole Series of Thought, his Midnight Repose, and his Morning Slumbers. In a Word, he is (as I may say) to be Judge of thatAfter-Life, which noble Spirits prefer to their very real Beings.
  10. The events or situations that result from a particular event; the laterreception,consumption orreworking of something, especially aculturalproduction such as a film, book, etc.
    Synonyms:aftercareer,aftermath
    Antonym:history
    The 1970s TV showM*A*S*H had a longafterlife in syndication.
    • 1969,Harry Zohn (translator), “The Task of the Translator” inIlluminations byWalter 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 eternalafterlife in succeeding generations.
    • 2005,Tony Judt,Postwar‎[14], New York: Penguin, Introduction, p. 4:
      Europe in the Twenties and especially the Thirties entered a twilight zone between theafterlife of one war and the looming anticipation of another.
    • 2019 October 7, “Nightlife”, inThe New Yorker, page 6:
      Even in its eighties habitat,Phil Collins’s signature style was rarely mistaken for hip, but his hits have definitely taken on a robustafterlife.

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See alsoThesaurus:life after death,Thesaurus:afterlife

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a conscious existence after death
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