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life
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- pronunciation:
- laIf
- features:
- Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| inflections: |
lives |
| definition 1: |
the state of being that sets animals and plants apart from rocks, minerals, and other things that are not alive. Things that have life grow, reproduce, and use energy.
- synonyms:
- being
- similar words:
- existence, nature, vigor
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| definition 2: |
something that is alive, or all living things as a group.
Ten lives were lost at sea yesterday.Pollution has affected the plant life in the area.- synonyms:
- being, organism
- similar words:
- creature, ecosystem, fauna, flora, humankind, mortal
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| definition 3: |
the time between birth and death.
He has had a long life.- synonyms:
- life span, lifetime
- similar words:
- age, duration, existence, generation, survival, term
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| definition 4: |
the period during which something lasts or works.
These tires should last for the life of my car.- synonyms:
- duration, lifetime
- similar words:
- existence, period, span
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| definition 5: |
way of being.
Graham leads an active life.- synonyms:
- condition, existence, lifestyle
- similar words:
- being, career, circumstance, destiny, fortune, living, lot, situation, walk of life
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| definition 6: |
energy, movement, or spirit.
He is full of life.- synonyms:
- energy, liveliness, pep, vigor
- similar words:
- bounce, go, passion, sparkle, zip
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| definition 7: |
a biography or story of someone's life.
I have just finished reading a life of Gandhi.- synonyms:
- biography
- similar words:
- autobiography, diary, journal
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| related words: |
being, experience, living |
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associated with length of life |
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annual, biennial, life span, perennial |
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changes in life |
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aging, birth, death, growth, metamorphosis |
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opposite of life |
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death, extinction |
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some actions associated with life |
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feed, grow, move, reproduce |
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some stages of human life |
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adolescent, adult, baby, child, elder, embryo, infant, juvenile, newborn, senior citizen, teenager, toddler, tot, youngster, youth |
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some things that affect life |
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food, oxygen, sunlight, temperature, water |
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some things that are alive |
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animal, bacteria, fungus, human, microbe, parasite, plant, protozoan, virus |
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study of life |
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biology, ecology, philosophy |
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