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life |līf|
noun ( pl. lives |līvz|)
1 the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death : the origins of life.
• living things and their activity : some sort of life existed on Mars | lower forms of life | the ice-cream vendors were the only signs of life.
• the state of being alive as a human being : she didn't want to die; she loved life | a superficial world where life revolved around the minutiae of outward appearance.
• vitality, vigor, or energy : she was beautiful and full of life.
• any of a number of successive existences in which a soul is held to be reincarnated (as in Hinduism and some other religious traditions).
3 (usu. one's life) the period between the birth and death of a living thing, esp. a human being : she has lived all her life in the country | I want to be with you for the rest of my life | they became friends for life.
ORIGIN Old English līf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lijf, German Leib ‘body,’ also to live 1 .
Thesaurus
life
noun
1 the joy of giving life to a child
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