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life
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- pronunciation:
- laIf
- features:
- Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| inflections: |
lives |
| definition 1: |
the thing that is in humans, animals, and plants that allows them to grow and to produce more creatures like themselves. Things like rocks do not have life.
Humans and animals must have air and water for life.- similar words:
- existence, nature
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| definition 2: |
something that is alive, or all living things as a group.
The scientists are looking for evidence of life on other planets.- synonyms:
- being
- similar words:
- creature
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| definition 3: |
the time between birth and death.
My grandmother has had a long life.- similar words:
- age, existence, generation, survival, term
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| related words: |
being |
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changes in life |
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birth, death, growth |
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opposite of life |
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death |
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some actions associated with life |
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grow, reproduce |
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some stages of human life |
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baby, child, infant, senior citizen, teenager, youth |
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some things that affect life |
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food, oxygen, temperature, water |
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some things that are alive |
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animal, fungus, human, plant, virus |
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study of life |
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biology |
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