Thesaurus:afterlife

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

• pearly gates

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.