past life

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past life

noun 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.

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noun life lived before reincarnation

日本語前世 zensei, zense

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@misc{past_life_2026,
  title = {past life},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/past%20life},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}