|
WordNet-Online
Free dictionary and thesaurus of English. Definitions, synonyms, antonyms and more...
Hint: double-click any word to get it searched!
Noun life has 14 senses
- life - a characteristic state or mode of living; "social life"; "city life"; "real life"
--1 is a kind of being, beingness, existence
--1 has particulars: ghetto
- life - the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living; "he hoped for a new life in Australia"; "he wanted to live his own life without interference from others"
--2 is a kind of being, beingness, existence
- life, living - the experience of living; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"
--3 is a kind of experience
- animation, life, living, aliveness - the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"
--4 is a kind of being, beingness, existence
--4 has particulars: eternal life, life eternal; skin; survival, endurance
- life, lifetime, lifespan - the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death); "the battery had a short life"; "he lived a long and happy life"
--5 is a kind of time period, period of time, period
--5 has parts:
--5 has particulars: life expectancy; afterlife, hereafter
- life - the period between birth and the present time; "I have known him all his life"
--6 is a kind of time period, period of time, period
--6 has part: past
- liveliness, life, spirit, sprightliness - animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it"
--7 is a kind of animation, spiritedness, invigoration, brio, vivification
--7 has particulars: | | airiness, delicacy; alacrity, briskness; energy, vigor, vigour, vim; elan; esprit; breeziness, jauntiness; irrepressibility, buoyancy; high-spiritedness; exuberance, enthusiasm, ebullience; pep, peppiness, ginger |
- biography, life, life story, life history - an account of the series of events making up a person's life
--8 is a kind of history, account, chronicle, story
--8 has particulars: autobiography; hagiography; profile; Parallel Lives
- life - the period from the present until death; "he appointed himself emperor for life"
--9 is a kind of time period, period of time, period
--9 has particulars: days, years
- life - a living person; "his heroism saved a life"
--10 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
- life - living things collectively; "the oceans are teeming with life"
--11 is a kind of living thing, animate thing
--11 has particulars: wildlife
- life - a motive for living; "pottery was his life"
--12 is a kind of motivation, motive, need
- life - the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones; "there is no life on the moon"
--13 is a kind of organic phenomenon
--13 has particulars: biology; aerobiosis
- life sentence, life - a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives; "he got life for killing the guard"
--14 is a kind of prison term, sentence, time
|