Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The period of time during which an individual is alive.
- n. The period of time during which property, an object, a process, or a phenomenon exists or functions.
- adj. Continuing for a lifetime; lifelong.
- adj. Occurring or measured over a person's active career: a lifetime batting average.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The time that one's life continues; duration of life.
Wiktionary
- n. The duration of the life of someone or something.
- n. informal, hyperbolic A long period of time.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The time that life continues.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)
- n. the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)
Examples
“Lloyds said it has not used the term "lifetime" cover since 2007 - and that it was clearly explained in the policy documents, that pet insurance remained an annual insurance policy, and terms and conditions could be altered.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“The study also provided an estimate of what it refers to as "lifetime incidence" — given the current abortion rate, the proportion of women estimated to have an abortion in their lifetime by age 45.”
USA Today: Abortion rates decline overall, increasing in poor
“Correction, Senator Bennett scored the 64 in 2008, his lifetime is about an 83, not bad.”
“The greatest magic trick of our lifetime is the Republican Party convincing people to vote against their own interests.”
The Huffington Post: Robert J. Elisberg: The First Election Results Are in!
“Just realizing how technology has advanced in my lifetime is amazing.”
“To put that in perspective, the incident rate of a person being struck by lightning in their lifetime is about 11 times the incidence rate of proven voter fraud in Milwaukee.”
“Negroponte has shown us some of them over two years, which is a short time in what he calls a lifetime job with no days off.”
“This is because plastics bags have a short term lifetime of use, and end up being thrown away.”
“Hey everyone, another great language you will want to learn in this lifetime is Italian.”
“Fortunately, their lifetime is short, lasting from several seconds to several minutes.”
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common UA vocab. in US
Interesting, there is a traditional vocabulary of an Ukrainian, that differs from vocabulary of average American. It would be nice to explore it.
jackdaw, incongruous, cassock, vivid, magpie, humdrum, amongst, wonder, wandering, wheedling, wheedle, osseous and 368 more...
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Beautiful Compound Words
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Wordtime
wintertime, wartime, uptime, undertime, twotime, teatime, suppertime, summertime, springtime, spacetime, sometime, showtime and 31 more...
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time
gloaming, twilight, eventide, morn, lifetime, infinitude, autumnal
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