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TIME OF LIFE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("time of life" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "time of life"):
deathbed (the last few hours before death)
age; eld; geezerhood; old age; years (a late time of life)
widowhood (the time of a woman's life when she is a widow)
middle age (the time of life between youth and old age (e.g., between 40 and 60 years of age))
bachelorhood (the time of a man's life prior to marriage)
adulthood; maturity (the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed)
bloom; bloom of youth; salad days (the best time of youth)
mid-nineties; nineties (the time of life between 90 and 100)
eighties; mid-eighties (the time of life between 80 and 90)
mid-seventies; seventies (the time of life between 70 and 80)
golden years (the time of life after retirement from active work)
mid-sixties; sixties (the time of life between 60 and 70)
fifties; mid-fifties (the time of life between 50 and 60)
forties; mid-forties (the time of life between 40 and 50)
mid-thirties; thirties; thirty-something (the time of life between 30 and 40)
mid-twenties; twenties (the time of life between 20 and 30)
teens (the time of life between the ages of 12 and 20)
puberty; pubescence (the time of life when sex glands become functional)
prepuberty (a period of two years immediately prior to the onset of puberty when growth and changes leading to sexual maturity occur)
adolescence (the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood)
youth (the time of life between childhood and maturity)
schooldays; schooltime (the time of life when you are going to school)
childhood (the time of person's life when they are a child)
babyhood; early childhood; infancy (the early stage of growth or development)
neonatal period (the first 28 days of life)
age; eld (a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises)
summer (the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty)
Holonyms ("time of life" is a part of...):
life; life-time; lifespan; lifetime (the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death))
Context examples:
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He has many friends, and is at a time of life when friends and engagements are continually increasing.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Me! a poor, helpless, forlorn widow, unfit for anything, my spirits quite broke down; what could I do with a girl at her time of life?
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
'Tan't to be expected, of course, at her time of life, and being lone and lorn, as the good old Mawther is to be knocked about aboardship, and in the woods and wilds of a new and fur-away country.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
We should not like her so well as we do, sir, if we could suppose it; but she knows how much the marriage is to Miss Taylor's advantage; she knows how very acceptable it must be, at Miss Taylor's time of life, to be settled in a home of her own, and how important to her to be secure of a comfortable provision, and therefore cannot allow herself to feel so much pain as pleasure.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Then do tell me what he was at that time of life.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
At her time of life, any thing of an illness destroys the bloom for ever!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
It was, moreover, such a promising thing for her younger daughters, as Jane's marrying so greatly must throw them in the way of other rich men; and lastly, it was so pleasant at her time of life to be able to consign her single daughters to the care of their sister, that she might not be obliged to go into company more than she liked.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The necessity of the measure in a pecuniary light, and the hope of its utility to his son, reconciled Sir Thomas to the effort of quitting the rest of his family, and of leaving his daughters to the direction of others at their present most interesting time of life.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
If you'll believe me, returned Mr. Peggotty, Missis Gummidge, 'stead of saying thank you, I'm much obleeged to you, I ain't a-going fur to change my condition at my time of life, up'd with a bucket as was standing by, and laid it over that theer ship's cook's head 'till he sung out fur help, and I went in and reskied of him.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
