lifestylenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈlaɪf.staɪl/us/ˈlaɪf.staɪl/B2 someone's way of living; the things that a person or particular group of people usually do:
He doesn't have a very healthy lifestyle.
She needs a pretty high income to support her lifestyle.
an alternative lifestyle
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- My doctor says I should start playing sport because my lifestyle is too sedentary.
- Some people like the sense of structure that a military lifestyle imposes.
- He ran up stupendous debts through his extravagant lifestyle.
- The city lifestyle seems to suit her - she's certainly looking very well.
- I don't know how they manage to support their expensive lifestyle.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Lifestyles & their study
- anthropogenic
- anthropologist
- anthropology
- cultural
- culture
- demographer
- ethnography
- ethnological
- ethnology
- hermetic
- living
- lot
- meme
- milieu
- suburbia
- the global village
- trend
- vegetate
- way of life idiom
- westernize
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