otherworld

See also: Otherworld

English

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Etymology

From Middle English othyr world, oþerr werelld, oþer world,[1] from Old English ōþer weoruld, equivalent to other +‎ world.[2]

Pronunciation

  • (US) enPR: ŭthʹər-wûrld', IPA(key): /ˈʌðɚˌwɝld/

Noun

otherworld (plural otherworlds)

  1. A world beyond death; an afterlife.
    Synonyms: hereafter, other side
  2. A world other than the everyday world.
    • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 192:
      We do not want, of course, to return to all the crudities and barbarities of the past; but also we do not want to become attenuated and spiritualized out of all mundane sense and recognition, and to live in an otherworld Paradise void of application to earthly affairs.
    1. A mythical abode of otherworldly beings.

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  1. ^ The template Template:R:MED Online does not use the parameter(s): 
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    Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.    “[other] world” under “ọ̄̆ther, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ^ “other world, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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