life
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(noun) living things collectively; "the oceans are teeming with life" |
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Related Words: being, life form, living thing, organism, wildlife |
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(noun) the experience of living; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life" |
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Synonyms: living |
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Related Words: experience |
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(noun) a motive for living; "pottery was his life" |
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Related Words: motivation, motive, need |
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(noun) a living person; "his heroism saved a life" |
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Related Words: human, individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul |
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(noun) the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones; "there is no life on the moon" |
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Related Words: aerobiosis, biology, organic phenomenon |
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(noun) the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living; "he hoped for a new life in Australia"; "he wanted to live his own life without interference from others" |
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Related Words: being, beingness, existence |
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(noun) a characteristic state or mode of living; "social life"; "city life"; "real life" |
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Related Words: being, beingness, existence |
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(noun) the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death); "the battery had a short life"; "he lived a long and happy life" |
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Synonyms: lifespan, lifetime |
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Related Words: afterlife, amount of time, hereafter, life expectancy, period, period of time, time period |
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(noun) the period between birth and the present time; "I have known him all his life" |
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Related Words: amount of time, period, period of time, time period |
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(noun) the period from the present until death; "he appointed himself emperor for life" |
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Related Words: amount of time, days, period, period of time, time period, years |
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(noun) animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it" |
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Synonyms: liveliness, spirit, sprightliness |
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Related Words: airiness, alacrity, animation, breeziness, briskness, buoyancy, delicacy, ebullience, elan, energy, enthusiasm, esprit, exuberance, ginger, high spirits, high-spiritedness, irrepressibility, jauntiness, pep, peppiness, resilience, resiliency, spiritedness, vigor, vigour, vim |
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(noun) an account of the series of events making up a person's life |
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Synonyms: biography, life history, life story |
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Related Words: account, autobiography, chronicle, hagiography, history, profile, story |
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(noun) the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes" |
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Synonyms: aliveness, animation, living |
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Related Words: being, beingness, endurance, eternal life, existence, life eternal, skin, survival |
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