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LIFE-TIME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)
Example:
he lived a long and happy life
Synonyms:
life; life-time; lifespan; lifetime
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("life-time" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Meronyms (parts of "life-time"):
birth (the time when something begins (especially life))
death; demise; dying (the time when something ends)
time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)
age; eld (a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "life-time"):
