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LIFE-TIME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does life-time mean?
• LIFE-TIME (noun)
The noun LIFE-TIME has 1 sense:
1. the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)
Familiarity information: LIFE-TIME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
life; life-time; lifespan; lifetime
Context example:
he lived a long and happy life
Hypernyms ("life-time" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Meronyms (parts of "life-time"):
birth (the time when something begins (especially life))
death; demise; dying (the time when something ends)
time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)
age; eld (a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "life-time"):
Context examples
It seemed a life-time since he had received that letter from the Transcontinental, a life-time since it was all over and done with and a new page turned.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Many take place on a picosecond and femtosecond scale, which is unbelievably fast — the number of femtoseconds in one second is significantly larger than the number of seconds in a person's life-time.
(World's Fastest Film Camera, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
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