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E.E. Cummings

It is said that if the dead who died in the Great

War were placed head to feet, they would stretch

from New York to San Francisco, and from San

Francisco back again to New York; and if those

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other world

Part of SpeechnounPronunciationuh-ther worldUsed In Literature ↓

The spiritual world; the afterlife.

In a Sentence

Many cultures believe that the other world awaits after death.

Origin

From Middle English 'other' + 'world', meaning a realm beyond this life.

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Poetry examples for other world

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

remove what is unique to Christianity, and thereby open up greater reciprocity and

dialogue between Christianity and other world religions A necessary step is to show that

Christ himself put God at the center of his thought If so, then correspondingly it behooves

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