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English noun: life | |||
| 1. | life (state) a characteristic state or mode of living | ||
| Samples | Social life. City life. Real life. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | being, beingness, existence | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | ghetto | ||
| 2. | life (cognition) the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities | ||
| Samples | He could no longer cope with the complexities of life. | ||
| Synonyms | living | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | experience | ||
| 3. | life (state) the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living | ||
| Samples | He hoped for a new life in Australia. He wanted to live his own life without interference from others. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | being, beingness, existence | ||
| 4. | life (state) the condition of living or the state of being alive | ||
| Samples | While there's life there's hope. Life depends on many chemical and physical processes. | ||
| Synonyms | aliveness, animation, living | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | being, beingness, existence | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | endurance, eternal life, life eternal, skin, survival | ||
| Attribute | alive, dead, live | ||
| 5. | life (time) the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death) | ||
| Samples | The battery had a short life. He lived a long and happy life. | ||
| Synonyms | life-time, lifespan, lifetime | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | period, period of time, time period | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | afterlife, hereafter | ||
| Part holonym | age, birth, death, demise, dying, eld, time of life | ||
| 6. | life (time) the period between birth and the present time | ||
| Samples | I have known him all his life. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | period, period of time, time period | ||
| Part holonym | past | ||
| 7. | life (time) the period from the present until death | ||
| Samples | He appointed himself emperor for life. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | period, period of time, time period | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | days, years | ||
| 8. | life (person) a living person | ||
| Samples | His heroism saved a life. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | ||
| 9. | life (attribute) animation and energy in action or expression | ||
| Samples | It was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it. | ||
| Synonyms | liveliness, spirit, sprightliness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | animation, brio, invigoration, spiritedness, vivification | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | airiness, alacrity, breeziness, briskness, buoyancy, delicacy, ebullience, elan, energy, enthusiasm, esprit, exuberance, ginger, high-spiritedness, irrepressibility, jauntiness, muscularity, pep, peppiness, pertness, smartness, vigor, vigour, vim | ||
| Attribute | lively | ||
| 10. | life living things collectively | ||
| Samples | The oceans are teeming with life. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | animate thing, living thing | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | wildlife | ||
| 11. | life (phenomenon) the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones | ||
| Samples | There is no life on the moon. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | organic phenomenon | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | aerobiosis, biology | ||
| 12. | life (communication) an account of the series of events making up a person's life | ||
| Synonyms | biography, life history, life story | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | account, chronicle, history, story | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | autobiography, hagiography, profile | ||
| Instance hyponym | Parallel Lives | ||
| 13. | life (motive) a motive for living | ||
| Samples | Pottery was his life. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | motivation, motive, need | ||
| 14. | life (time) a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives | ||
| Samples | He got life for killing the guard. | ||
| Synonyms | life sentence | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | prison term, sentence, time | ||
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