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English to English noun
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a characteristic state or mode of living |  | Example: social life
city life
real life
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the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities | | Example: he could no longer cope with the complexities of life
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the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living | | Example: he hoped for a new life in Australia
he wanted to live his own life without interference from others
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the condition of living or the state of being alive | | Example: while there's life there's hope
life depends on many chemical and physical processes
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the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death) | | Example: the battery had a short life
he lived a long and happy life
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the period between birth and the present time | | Example: I have known him all his life
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the period from the present until death | | Example: he appointed himself emperor for life
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a living person | | Example: his heroism saved a life
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animation and energy in action or expression | | Example: it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it
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living things collectively | | Example: the oceans are teeming with life
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the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones | | Example: there is no life on the moon
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an account of the series of events making up a person's life | | source: wordnet30
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a motive for living | | Example: pottery was his life
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a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives | | Example: he got life for killing the guard
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The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that state of an animal or plant in which all or any of its organs are capable of performing all or any of their functions; - - used of all animal and vegetable organisms. | | source: webster1913
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