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

/ ˈɑːftəˌlaɪf /

noun

1. life after death or at a later time in a person's lifetime

Word History and Origins

Origin of afterlife¹

First recorded in 1585–95; after + life

Example Sentences

Repairing the body would have ensured that the deceased could continue existing in the afterlife.

From Science News

If you sit around considering your own mortality, you’ll be driven to invent stories about an afterlife so that the stories you fashion for yourself can carry on after death.

From Vox

He wakes up on a stairway to the afterlife and runs in the opposite direction, hoping to get back to earth, but instead he finds himself in a place called the Great Before, where he sees how souls are made.

From Outside Online

It has a surprising number of applications beyond concerns for a comfortable afterlife.

From Nautilus

This was so that in the afterlife, the dead could see and communicate with the living.

From Science News For Students

The religious narrative resolved our death anxiety through faith in an afterlife.

From The Daily Beast

Somewhere in the Afterlife, Laurence Sterne must have been tickled to see his fiendish book infused with new life.

From The Daily Beast

Last year, he created the critically acclaimed zombie-apocalypse-in-Riverdale themed title Afterlife With Archie.

From The Daily Beast

In 2011 and 2012, about 40 percent of each published Archie comic went unsold; to date, every issue of Afterlife has sold out.

From The Daily Beast

Families can visit entire sculpture gardens featuring vivid depictions of what sinners face in the afterlife.

From The Daily Beast

And perhaps it was to a certain remorse in the tutor's mind that Elsmere owed an experience of great importance to his afterlife.

From Project Gutenberg

Why refuse a bit of sweetness to a tiny infant, perhaps destined to taste little of it in afterlife?

From Project Gutenberg

The tone that colours our afterlife is often caught in these chance colloquies, and the bent given that shapes a career.

From Project Gutenberg

He was placed there when about fourteen years old, and appears to have been educated to his own satisfaction in afterlife.

From Project Gutenberg

Before that 'gold net thrown over all,' all the mistakes of his afterlife seem to me to grow almost insignificant.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• hereafter