Synonyms

afterlife

[af-ter-lahyf, ahf-] Origin

af·ter·life

[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.

Origin:
1585–95; after + life
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Afterlife is always a great word to know.
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a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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afterlife (ˈɑːftəˌlaɪf)
 
n
life after death or at a later time in a person's lifetime

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afterlife
1590s, "a future life" (esp. after resurrection), from after + life.
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