"beforelife" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "By analogy with afterlife.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "beforelives",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "beforelives"
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      "expansion": "beforelife (plural beforelives)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Randy Alcorn, Edge of Eternity, →ISBN, page 258:",
          "text": "The roads men choose in the beforelife lead to infinite joy or infinite misery in the afterlife.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, N. Gregory Mankiw, Principles of Economics, sixth edition, page 426:",
          "text": "Imagine that before any of us is born, we all get together in the beforelife (the pre-birth version of the afterlife) for a meeting to design the rules that will govern society.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, William Lowell Randall, The Stories We Are: An Essay on Self-Creation, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 150:",
          "text": "The point is that, however secular our culture may be, notions of an afterlife (and/or a beforelife) seem to be dying rather hard.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An existence before the beginning of life."
      ],
      "id": "en-beforelife-en-noun-mFdhTeYI",
      "links": [
        [
          "before",
          "before"
        ],
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "afterlife"
        },
        {
          "word": "forelife"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "beforelife"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "By analogy with afterlife.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "beforelives",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "beforelives"
      },
      "expansion": "beforelife (plural beforelives)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "afterlife"
    },
    {
      "word": "forelife"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 3-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Randy Alcorn, Edge of Eternity, →ISBN, page 258:",
          "text": "The roads men choose in the beforelife lead to infinite joy or infinite misery in the afterlife.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, N. Gregory Mankiw, Principles of Economics, sixth edition, page 426:",
          "text": "Imagine that before any of us is born, we all get together in the beforelife (the pre-birth version of the afterlife) for a meeting to design the rules that will govern society.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, William Lowell Randall, The Stories We Are: An Essay on Self-Creation, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 150:",
          "text": "The point is that, however secular our culture may be, notions of an afterlife (and/or a beforelife) seem to be dying rather hard.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An existence before the beginning of life."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "before",
          "before"
        ],
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "beforelife"
}