ETERNAL LIFE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eternal life mean? 

• ETERNAL LIFE (noun)
  The noun ETERNAL LIFE has 1 sense:

1. life without beginning or end

  Familiarity information: ETERNAL LIFE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ETERNAL LIFE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Life without beginning or end

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

eternal life; life eternal

Hypernyms ("eternal life" is a kind of...):

aliveness; animation; life; living (the condition of living or the state of being alive)

 Context examples 

But the bid of the saint's eyes was mystery, and wonder unthinkable, and eternal life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It’s just so much slush and sentiment, and you must see it yourself, at least for one who does not believe in eternal life.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And promptly urged his ambition to grasp at eternal life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Why, my dear fellow, you will live for ever. You are a god, and God cannot be killed. Cooky cannot hurt you. You are sure of your resurrection. What’s there to be afraid of? You have eternal life before you.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And now, in her, he conceived purity to be the superlative of goodness and of cleanness, the sum of which constituted eternal life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He was drunken in new and more profound ways—with Ruth, who had fired him with love and with a glimpse of higher and eternal life; with books, that had set a myriad maggots of desire gnawing in his brain; and with the sense of personal cleanliness he was achieving, that gave him even more superb health than what he had enjoyed and that made his whole body sing with physical well-being.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)