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English
Noun
life list (plural life lists)
- (birdwatching) A cumulative list of all the bird species a birder has ever sighted and identified.
- Hypernym: checklist
2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 112:I added twenty species for the year, fourteen of which I couldn't hope to see anywhere else but Mike forked out a lot of money to come a long way with not a single addition to his life list to show for it.
- A wishlist of things to accomplish during one's lifetime.
- Synonym: bucket list
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