afterlife

A life that some people believe continues after a person dies.

• Do you believe in an afterlife?
• Her faith promised a peaceful afterlife.
• Different religions describe the afterlife in different ways.

Similar words: life after death

Common phrases: an eternal afterlife, life and afterlife, believe in the afterlife

The place where some people believe those who have died go to live.

• She hoped to meet him in the afterlife.
• The story follows a soul into the afterlife.
• They left gifts to help the dead reach the afterlife.

Similar words: next world, hereafter

Common phrases: in the afterlife, enter the afterlife, reach the afterlife

The continuing effect of someone's work or reputation after they die.

• The poet enjoyed a long literary afterlife.
• Her afterlife rests on the schools she founded.
• His reputation had a troubled afterlife as new evidence emerged.

Similar words: legacy, posthumous influence

Common phrases: literary afterlife, posthumous afterlife, afterlife of someone

The later part of someone's life, after an important event or period has ended.

• Retirement offered him a quiet afterlife.
• She described her years after divorce as a new afterlife.
• His political career ended, but his afterlife as a writer flourished.

Similar words: later life

Common phrases: afterlife of retirement, a peaceful afterlife