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life

noun
  1. living things collectively
    “the oceans are teeming with life”
  2. animation and energy in action or expression
    “it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it”
    livelinesssprightlinessspirit
  3. the experience of being alive
    living
  4. an account of the series of events making up a person's life
    life historylife storybiography
  5. a motive for living
    “Pottery is my life.”
  6. a living person
    “My heroism saved a life.”
  7. the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones
    “there is no life on the moon”
  8. the course of existence of an individual
  9. the condition of living or the state of being alive
    “while there's life there's hope”
    livinganimationaliveness
  10. a characteristic state or mode of living
    “social life”
  11. the period during which something is functional
    “The battery had a short life, rendering it useless for long journeys.”
    lifetimelife-timelifespan
  12. the period between birth and the present time
    “I have known them all their life.”
  13. the period from the present until death
    “I appointed myself emperor for life.”
  14. a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives
    “I got life for killing the guard.”
    life sentence