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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
Verb live has 7 senses
- dwell, shack, reside, live, inhabit, people, populate, domicile, domiciliate - make one's home or live in; "She resides officially in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The plains are sparsely populated"
--1 is one way to be
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- live - lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style; "we had to live frugally after the war"
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- survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out - continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents"
Sample sentence:
The business is going to live
- exist, survive, live, subsist - support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"
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- be, live - have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war"
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- know, experience, live - have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces"
--6 is one way to experience, undergo, see, go through
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- live - pursue a positive and satisfying existence; "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live"
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