WAY OF LIFE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does way of life mean? 

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

1. a course of conduct

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAY OF LIFE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A course of conduct

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

path; way; way of life

Context example:

genius usually follows a revolutionary path

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

course; course of action (a mode of action)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "way of life"):

ambages ((archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action)

primrose path (a life of ease and pleasure)

straight and narrow; strait and narrow (the way of proper and honest behavior)

hadith; Sunna; Sunnah ((Islam) the way of life prescribed as normative for Muslims on the basis of the teachings and practices of Muhammad and interpretations of the Koran)

warpath (a course leading to warfare or battle)

 Context examples 

He did not know her way of life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Certainly; you must be sensible that the last half-year has made a great difference in your way of life.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Of his former way of life nothing had been known in Hertfordshire but what he told himself.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A social group characterized by a distinctive social and cultural tradition maintained from generation to generation, a common history and origin and a sense of identification with the group; members of the group have distinctive features in their way of life, shared experiences and often a common genetic heritage; these features may be reflected in their experience of health and disease.

(CDISC SDTM Ethnic Group Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

This is a way of life which reminds me of the period when I was myself in a state of celibacy, and Mrs. Micawber had not yet been solicited to plight her faith at the Hymeneal altar.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

While old One Eye, the wolf crouching in the covert, played his part, too, in the game, waiting for some strange freak of Chance, that might help him on the meat-trail which was his way of life.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He lay down in the snow, depositing the ptarmigan beside him, and with eyes peering through the needles of a low-growing spruce he watched the play of life before him—the waiting lynx and the waiting porcupine, each intent on life; and, such was the curiousness of the game, the way of life for one lay in the eating of the other, and the way of life for the other lay in being not eaten.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I had been out, one day, loitering somewhere, in the listless, meditative manner that my way of life engendered, when, turning the corner of a lane near our house, I came upon Mr. Murdstone walking with a gentleman.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)