α. late Middle English lyfhode, 1600s–1700s lifehood.
β. 1800s– livehood.
单词 | lifehood |
释义 | lifehoodn.α. late Middle English lyfhode, 1600s–1700s lifehood. β. 1800s– livehood. Means of maintaining life: livelihood, sustenance. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > [noun] > sustenance or nourishment foodOE fosterc1000 fodnethOE flittinga1225 livenotha1225 nourishingc1300 sustenancec1300 livelihoodc1325 nurture1340 fosteringc1386 livingc1405 nouriturea1425 nutriment?a1425 nutrition?a1425 lifehood1440 reliefa1450 nourishmentc1450 nurshingc1450 sustentationc1450 nutrimentc1485 alimenta1500 sustainmenta1500 bielda1522 creature1540 suck1584 mantiniment1588 fosterment1593 the three M's1938 society > occupation and work > [noun] > regular occupation, trade, or profession > livelihood lifeOE foodOE livelihoodc1300 livingc1330 ploughc1390 purchasec1475 daily bread1526 being1570 governing1572 shift1572 supportation1576 thrift1579 livelihead1590 thrive1592 breadwinnera1614 subsistence1644 gain1655 bread and butter1691 through-bearing1705 bread1719 bread ticket1801 daily1817 lifehood1823 rice bowl1853 crust1916 α. β. 1823 Trans. Lit. Soc. Bombay 3 247 No person in the township practises medicine as a means of livehood. 1929 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 92 544 I allude to the ‘use of leisure’, employing that term in its very widest sense to include the whole of life except that part of it which is directly concerned with the earning of a livehood.2007 Church Times 23 Mar. 7/4 Tradecrafts said the move would damage East African livehoods. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 308 Lyvelode, or lyfhode [a1500 King's Cambr. liyflode], victus. 1664 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1888) VI. If the said inhabitants shall provide for a sufficient lifehood for the said children. 1772 G. A. Stevens Songs Comic & Satyrical 113 Those Mode-made-up Things, flutter lifehood away. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1440 |
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