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beforelife

beforelife noun: an existence before the beginning of life.

Noun

beforelife (plural beforelives)

  1. An existence before the beginning of life.
    • The roads men choose in the beforelife lead to infinite joy or infinite misery in the afterlife.2009, Randy Alcorn, Edge of Eternity, →ISBN, page 258
    • Imagine that before any of us is born, we all get together in the beforelife (the pre-birth version of the afterlife) for a meeting to design the rules that will govern society.2012, N. Gregory Mankiw, Principles of Economics, sixth edition, page 426

Forms of beforelife

pluralbeforelives

Origin of beforelife

By analogy with afterlife.

Questions about beforelife

What does beforelife mean?
Beforelife means an existence before the beginning of life.
What part of speech is beforelife?
Beforelife is a noun.
What is the plural of beforelife?
The plural of beforelife is beforelives.

Words near beforelife in the dictionary

  1. before-mentioned
  2. beforecited
  3. beforehand
  4. beforehand in the world
  5. beforehand with the world
  6. beforelife
  7. beforelives
  8. beforely
  9. beforemath
  10. beforemaths
  11. beforementioned

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