Definition for Life (-'s, lives)

life (-'s, lives), n. [OE líf, person, body.]

  1. Experience; mortality.
  2. State of being alive; ability to move, breathe, and feel.
  3. Consciousness; existence; Dasein.
  4. Mortal state; daily existence; day to day affairs.
  5. Animation; the will to live.
  6. Vitality; viability; [fig.] sustenance; nourishment; refreshment.
  7. World; dimension of existence.
  8. Span; time period.
  9. Personality; persona; unique character; individual intelligence.
  10. Domain; realm of action; sphere of influence.
  11. Support; sustenance; nourishment; positive energy; vital breath; [fig.] love; affection; devotion; nurturing; faithful emotion; [metaphor] poetry; beautiful language.
  12. Birth; genesis; physical existence.
  13. Biography; story; narrative; personal history.
  14. Influence; power; strength; vital force.
  15. Everyday existence; daily round of activities.
  16. Infinite existence; eternal capacity for love.
  17. Action; moral agency.
  18. Motivation; reason to live; justification for existence.
  19. Embodiment; incarnation; [fig.] fulfillment; completeness.
  20. Circumference; atom; living cell; scope of being; [fig.] universe; creation.
  21. Reality; truth; destiny; [fig.] felicity; the way to happiness; the path to meaningful existence.
  22. Biosphere; ecosystem; earthly domain; natural system; realm of nature; aspect of creation; season of the year; [fig.] garden; field.
  23. Manner; living; way of being; mode of existence.
  24. Potential; fate; range of possibilities.
  25. Meaningful existence; full potential for feeling, loving, and being.
  26. Being; individual; person born; living entity; individual creature; [fig.] person born again spiritually.
  27. Creature; wight; living thing; animate being.
  28. Deity; God; Divinity; the Creator.
  29. Phrase. “New life”: resurrection; apocalypse; millennium; Second Coming of the Lord.
  30. Phrase. “The Dial life”: chronology; clock time; measured period; finite existence; [kenning] mortality; earth life.
  31. Phrase. “opon my life”: I swear with a solemn oath; (see Hamlet 1.1.170; 4.6.92).
  32. Phrase. “Life that is”: mortality; present time.
  33. Phrase. “Life that is to be”: immortality; future time; existence of the soul after death.
  34. Phrase. “Crown(s) of Life”: heavenly rewards; covenant promises; divine compensations (see James 1:12; Revelation 2:10).
  35. Phrase. “everlasting life”: eternity; never-ending being; new existence after death.

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