A day or some period of a person's life; (chiefly in plural) a person's life or lifetime, ‘(all) the days of (one's) life’.

In plural. A person's life or lifetime. Cf. year, n. 11a. Obsolete.

Usually with possessive. The period during which a person or thing lives, occupies a particular position, is active in a particular sphere…

With possessive. The period of a person's life or existence; lifetime. Also in extended use. In later use only in plural. Cf. time, n. 3a, year, n.…

The series of actions and occurrences constituting the history of an individual (esp. a human being) from birth to death. In generalized sense…

= lifetime, n.

The course of a person's life, lifetime; kind or manner of life; conduct. Obsolete.

With possessive: the period during which a person or thing lives or exists; lifetime, lifespan. In later use only in plural.

The duration of a person's (animal's, etc.) life; the period of time over which a person's life extends. Frequently in adverbial phrase in (during,…

a lifetime; one's lifetime.

Chiefly Law. for (also †to) term of (a person's) life: as long as the person in question lives; until the person's death. Now historical.

Life viewed as a race that is run; career.

Duration of life; one's lifetime. Obsolete.

Used figuratively (in senses 1 or 4) to denote the course of human life (or some part of it), or the fate of persons after death.

The whole lifespan or period of existence of any person, animal, or thing; the ordinary or expected duration of life. Now rare.

= life-day, n.; cf. bring, v. 8c, day, n. phrases 1c.

figurative. Something figured as being spun or continuously drawn out like a thread. The continued course of life, represented in classical mythology…

figurative or in figurative context: a person's progress through life or some part of it. Obsolete.

the days of one's life.

The duration of a person's life. Chiefly with possessive adjective.

Lifetime.

figurative. The continuation or course of life figured as a thread; cf. thread, n. 6a. Obsolete.

figurative with reference to the permanence of occupation guaranteed by a lease; esp. in a (new) lease of life. Also, the term during which…

A short space of time, esp. as the duration of human life; the (short) time during which a person lives.

Used in reference to the thread of life, which the Fates are represented as spinning.

Forward movement, succession, advance; course or direction of advance. (Sometimes with allusion to… Of the course of life of a person or group of…

Originally and chiefly Theology. The course of a person's life viewed originally as a temporary sojourn on earth (cf. sense 4b) and hence as a…

Any figurative ‘thread’. The thread of life which the Fates are fabled to spin and determine.

The thread spun by the Fates at a person's birth, on the length of which the duration of his life was suppose to depend. Hence, in popular…

(a) chiefly poetic the duration of a person's (or animal's, etc.) life, a lifetime (now rare); (b) = life sentence, n. 1.

figurative. A period of power, favour, or ascendancy; an opportunity; a turn. In later use often in to have a good innings and variants: to have a…

The duration of one's life; a lifetime.

English regional. A person's passage through life.

figurative. A period of power, favour, or ascendancy; an opportunity; a turn; = innings, n. 3. Chiefly U.S.

colloquial (originally English regional (southern)). = natural life, n.; now usually in in all my natural, for the rest of my natural.

The course of human existence from birth, through childhood and maturity, to old age and death; spec. one that is characteristic of a particular…

colloquial (originally and chiefly British). Life; span or length of life; esp. in in (all) one's (born) puff: in a person's experience, in all a…