2 entries found for life.
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Function: noun
Text: 1 a history of a person's life <our assignment is to write a short life of an author of our own choosing> -- see BIOGRAPHY
2 a member of the human race <an appalling number of lives were lost in the war> -- see HUMAN
3 active strength of body or mind <even though he's 86 years old, he still shows a lot of life> -- see VIGOR 1
4 the period during which something exists, lasts, or is in progress <the Egyptian civilization had an extremely long life> -- see DURATION 1
5 the way people live at a particular time and place <frontier life must have been rugged, exciting, challenging, and not a little dangerous> -- see CIVILIZATION 1