other world

noun

1. the world after death; the future world.

other world

noun

1. the spirit world or afterlife

Word History and Origins

Origin of other world¹

Middle English word dating back to 1150–1200

Example Sentences

When it comes to finding fossils of very ancient microbial life — whether on Earth or on other worlds, such as Mars — the odds are just not in our favor.

From Science News

They’re also talking to other world noise agencies to change laws so that supersonic planes can fly around the globe.

From Quanta Magazine

She also illuminates how this crust on the go informs other big questions in science, including the possibility of life on other worlds.

From Science News

In her memoir, she shares her personal story of finding herself widowed at 40, a suddenly single mother of two young sons, while she explains the science of her search for other worlds.

From MIT Technology Review

The only other world leader to have caught the coronavirus while running an election campaign was the Dominican Republic’s Luis Rodolfo Abinader — and he won with 53 percent of the vote in July.

From Ozy

And with all this change, so curiously parallel to that of the Other-world, goes too the same inevitable change in ideals.

From The Daily Beast

In conclusion, we must consider an offshoot of other-world ideas—the belief in the transmigration of souls.

From Project Gutenberg

As a matter of fact, the retributive idea is far from being implicated with other-world hopes.

From Project Gutenberg

He is absent from the world for nine days and has extraordinary experiences in the Other-World.

From Project Gutenberg

It becomes a riddle to explain why, if this is the case, we in this world catch no glimpse of the Other-World.

From Project Gutenberg

This was an other-world desert, one spawned in the fires of hell—a never-never land of scalding heat and unbelievable cold.

From Project Gutenberg