Word.ws English Dictionary

forelife

forelife noun: a former or previous life.

Noun

forelife (plural forelives)

  1. A former or previous life
    • [...] Murasaki, who stood before me and with an expression of perfect joy said to me, 'Buddha and Heaven have taken pity on me; for the life on earth, life in Senland is vouchsafed me, a home in Horai is accorded me; in the forelife of the Princess, in the forelife of my lord, Yamabito, was the...1965, Masamochi Ishikawa, The magical carpenter of Japan
    • It would be possible in this way to append an entire forelife to ones memory or more than one forelife.2000, R. Michael Perry, Forever for All
  2. (rare) Early or primitive life; protozoa
    • Because all they hoped to create was the lowest kind of life; in their own words, the protozoon, or forelife; whereas Babbage created the highest kind of life; as it should seem, the afterlife, [...]1910, Allen Upward, The New Word

Antonyms of forelife

Forms of forelife

pluralforelives
alternative formfore-life

Origin of forelife

From Middle English forelyf, foorlyf, equivalent to fore- + life.

Questions about forelife

What does forelife mean?
Forelife means a former or previous life.
What part of speech is forelife?
Forelife is a noun.
What is the plural of forelife?
The plural of forelife is forelives.

Words near forelife in the dictionary

  1. foreletting
  2. forelevel
  3. forelevels
  4. forelie
  5. forelies
  6. forelife
  7. forelift
  8. forelifted
  9. forelifting
  10. forelifts
  11. forelight

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: forelife (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “forelife.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/forelife. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.