Thesaurus:afterlife
English
Noun
Sense: the land or realm inhabited by the spirits of the dead
Synonyms
- afterlife
- afterworld
- by and by
- byembye (dated, dialect)
- deadland
- hereafter (idiomatic)
- next world
- other side (idiomatic)
- spirit world
- spiritual world
Hyponyms
- Hades (Greco-Roman)
- Hel (Norse)
- limbo (Christian)
- netherworld
- Niflheim (Norse)
- Niflhel (Norse)
- Sheol (Judaism)
- underworld
- land of reward
- Aidenn (poetic)
- Avalon (Arthurian legend)
- better place
- Elysian Fields (Greco-Roman)
- the great … in the sky
- happy hunting ground (Native American)
- Heaven
- Jannat (Islam)
- Jodo (Japanese Buddhist)
- jodo (Japanese Buddhist)
- New Jerusalem (Christian)
- Paradise
- Pure Land (Buddhist)
- pure land (Buddhist)
- sweet hereafter (idiomatic)
- Sukhavati (Buddhist)
- upstairs (informal)
- Valhalla (Norse)
- land of punishment
- Abaddon
- abyss
- bottomless pit (chiefly Christian)
- Gehenna
- gonghouse (obsolete)
- heck (minced oath)
- Hades (Christian)
- Hell
- hell
- infernal region
- Inferno
- inferno
- Jahannam (Islam)
- perdition
- Spirit Prison (Mormon)
- Tartarus (Greco-Roman)
- the other place (euphemistic)
- Umbral (spiritism, spiritualism)
- land of cleansing
- purgatorie (obsolete)
- purgatory (chiefly Christian)
- Purgatory (chiefly Christian)
- purging place
Meronyms
See also
- nirvana (Buddhism)
See also
- Thesaurus:life after death (the state)
Further reading
- “981. heaven” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “982. hell” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “afterlife” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.