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NOUN | 1 | life | A characteristic state or mode of living |
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2 | life | The course of existence of an individual | |
3 | life, living | The experience of living | |
4 | life, animation, living, aliveness | The condition of living or the state of being alive | |
5 | life, lifetime, lifespan | The period during which something is functional (as between birth and death) | |
6 | life | The period between birth and the present time | |
7 | life, liveliness, spirit, sprightliness | Animation and energy in action or expression | |
8 | life, biography, life story, life history | An account of the series of events making up a person's life | |
9 | life | The period from the present until death | |
10 | life | A living person | |
11 | life | Living things collectively | |
12 | life | A motive for living | |
13 | life | The organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones | |
14 | life, life sentence | A prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives |
Sounds | lay'f |
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Rhymes | afterlife, alewife, fife, and 10 more rhymes in ayf at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | A characteristic state or mode of living. |
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Examples | "social life"; "city life"; "real life" |
Narrower | ghetto |
Broader | being, beingness, existence |
Meaning | The course of existence of an individual. The actions and events that occur in living. |
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Examples | "he hoped for a new life in Australia"; "he wanted to live his own life without interference from others" |
Broader | being, beingness, existence |
Meaning | The experience of living. The course of human events and activities. |
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Examples | "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life" |
Synonyms | living |
Broader | experience |
Meaning | The condition of living or the state of being alive. |
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Examples | "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes" |
Synonyms | animation, living, aliveness |
Attributes | alive; dead |
Narrower | eternal life, life eternal; skin; survival, endurance |
Broader | being, beingness, existence |
Meaning | The period during which something is functional (as between birth and death). |
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Examples | "the battery had a short life"; "he lived a long and happy life" |
Synonyms | lifetime, lifespan |
Parts | birth; death, dying, demise; time of life; age, eld |
Narrower | life expectancy; afterlife, hereafter |
Broader | time period, period of time, period |
Meaning | The period between birth and the present time. |
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Examples | "I have known him all his life" |
Parts | past |
Broader | time period, period of time, period |
Meaning | Animation and energy in action or expression. |
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Examples | "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it" |
Synonyms | liveliness, spirit, sprightliness |
Attributes | lively |
Narrower | airiness, delicacy; alacrity, briskness; energy, vigor, vigour, vim; elan; esprit; breeziness, jauntiness; irrepressibility, buoyancy; high-spiritedness; exuberance, enthusiasm, ebullience; pep, peppiness, ginger |
Broader | animation, spiritedness, invigoration, brio, vivification |
Meaning | An account of the series of events making up a person's life. |
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Synonyms | biography, life story, life history |
Narrower | autobiography; hagiography; profile; Parallel Lives |
Broader | history, account, chronicle, story |
Meaning | The period from the present until death. |
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Examples | "he appointed himself emperor for life" |
Narrower | days, years |
Broader | time period, period of time, period |
Meaning | A living person. |
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Examples | "his heroism saved a life" |
Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul |
Meaning | Living things collectively. |
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Examples | "the oceans are teeming with life" |
Narrower | wildlife |
Broader | living thing, animate thing |
Meaning | A motive for living. |
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Examples | "pottery was his life" |
Broader | motivation, motive, need |
Meaning | The organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones. |
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Examples | "there is no life on the moon" |
Narrower | biology; aerobiosis |
Broader | organic phenomenon |
Adjectives | biotic |
Meaning | A prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives. |
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Examples | "he got life for killing the guard" |
Synonyms | life sentence |
Broader | prison term, sentence, time |