life
1. a characteristic state or mode of living (Freq. 66)
- social life
- city life
- real life
• Hypernyms:
being, beingness, existence
• Hyponyms:
ghetto
2. the experience of being alive;
the course of human events and activities (Freq. 54)
- he could no longer cope with the complexities of life
• Syn:
living
• Derivationally related forms:
live (for: living)
• Hypernyms:
experience
3. the course of existence of an individual;
the actions and events that occur in living (Freq. 41)
- he hoped for a new life in Australia
- he wanted to live his own life without interference from others
• Hypernyms:
being, beingness, existence
4. the condition of living or the state of being alive (Freq. 29)
- while there's life there's hope
- life depends on many chemical and physical processes
• Syn:
animation, living, aliveness
• Derivationally related forms:
alive (for: aliveness), live (for: living), lifer
• Hypernyms:
being, beingness, existence
• Hyponyms:
eternal life, life eternal, skin, survival, endurance
• Attrubites:
alive, live, dead
5. the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death) (Freq. 22)
- the battery had a short life
- he lived a long and happy life
• Syn:
lifetime, life-time, lifespan
• Derivationally related forms:
lifer
• Hypernyms:
time period, period of time, period
• Hyponyms:
afterlife, hereafter
• Part Meronyms:
birth, death, dying, demise, time of life,
age, eld
6. the period between birth and the present time (Freq. 18)
- I have known him all his life
• Hypernyms:
time period, period of time, period
• Part Meronyms:
past
7. the period from the present until death (Freq. 5)
- he appointed himself emperor for life
• Derivationally related forms:
lifer
• Hypernyms:
time period, period of time, period
• Hyponyms:
days, years
8. a living person (Freq. 5)
- his heroism saved a life
• Hypernyms:
person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
9. animation and energy in action or expression (Freq. 5)
- it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it
• Syn:
liveliness, spirit, sprightliness
• Derivationally related forms:
sprightly (for: sprightliness), spirit (for: spirit), spiritize (for: spirit), lively (for: liveliness)
• Hypernyms:
animation, spiritedness, invigoration, brio, vivification
• Hyponyms:
pertness, airiness, delicacy, alacrity, briskness,
smartness, energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim,
elan, esprit, breeziness, jauntiness, irrepressibility, buoyancy,
buoyancy, exuberance, enthusiasm, ebullience, pep,
peppiness, ginger
• Attrubites:
lively
10. living things collectively (Freq. 5)
- the oceans are teeming with life
• Hypernyms:
living thing, animate thing
• Hyponyms:
wildlife
11. the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones (Freq. 3)
- there is no life on the moon
• Hypernyms:
organic phenomenon
• Hyponyms:
biology, aerobiosis
12. an account of the series of events making up a person's life (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
biography, life story, life history
• Derivationally related forms:
biographical (for: biography), biographer (for: biography)
• Hypernyms:
history, account, chronicle, story
• Hyponyms:
autobiography, hagiography, profile
• Instance Hyponyms:
Parallel Lives
13. a motive for living (Freq. 1)
- pottery was his life
• Hypernyms:
motivation, motive, need
14. a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives
- he got life for killing the guard
• Syn:
life sentence
• Derivationally related forms:
lifer
• Hypernyms:
prison term, sentence, time
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