LINE OF LIFE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does line of life mean? 

• LINE OF LIFE (noun)
  The noun LINE OF LIFE has 1 sense:

1. a crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live

  Familiarity information: LINE OF LIFE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LINE OF LIFE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

life line; lifeline; line of life

Hypernyms ("line of life" is a kind of...):

crease; crinkle; furrow; line; seam; wrinkle (a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface)

 Context examples 

That’s your line of life, sir, and you may take the word of a man who has seen something of the world.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Well, sir,” he said, bowing and chuckling, and tucking in the ends of his neckerchief at his breast: “I thankee, sir, I thankee! I do my endeavours in my line of life, sir.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Had she not, with a folly which no tongue could express, prevented her marrying the unexceptionable young man who would have made her happy and respectable in the line of life to which she ought to belong—all would have been safe; none of this dreadful sequel would have been.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)