lifenoun
uk/laɪf/us/laɪf/plural livesA1 [ C or U ] the period between birth and death, or the experience or state of being alive:
B1 [ C or U ] a way of living or a particular part of someone's life:
C2 [ C usually singular ] the period for which a machine or organization lasts:
[ U ] the quality that makes people, animals, and plants different from objects, substances, and things that are dead:
B2 [ U ] energy or enthusiasm:
B1 [ U ] everything that is alive:
[ U ] specialized art In art, if you work from life, you paint, draw, etc. real people or objects, usually while they are in front of you rather than from memory:
[ C ] informal especially in children's games, one of the limited number of times that you can lose, but still continue playing:
to make something more real or exciting:
to become more real or exciting:
C1 for the whole of a person's life:
to be willing to die in order to defend or support someone or something:
If you believe in life after death, you believe that people continue to exist in some form after they die.
to completely change how or where you live:
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- She seems like a woman who is contented with her life.
- Your life changes dramatically when you have a baby.
- Her time at university was the most eventful period of her life.
- The new drug might help save the lives of cancer victims.
- It was only later in life that she found happiness and peace of mind.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Life and living
- alive
- animate
- borrow
- cheat
- cheat death idiom
- co-exist
- cradle
- hold
- immortal
- inanimate
- last
- last out
- lead 1
- life cycle
- life expectancy
- live out sth
- longevity
- outlive
- subsist
- subsistence
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