past life

See also: past-life

English

Noun

past life (plural past lives)

1. A previously lived life in a different body, according to theories of reincarnation.

   She claims to have been Cleopatra and Marie Antoinette in past lives.

2. (informal) A former period of one's life.

   I was a computer programmer in a past life, but now I raise pigs and chickens.

Translations

life lived before reincarnation

• Japanese: 前世 (ja) (zensei, zense)

previous phase in life

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