LIFE-TIME

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)

Example:

he lived a long and happy life

Synonyms:

life; life-time; lifespan; lifetime

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

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"):

afterlife; hereafter (life after death)