lifetime
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See also: life-time
English
Etymology
From Middle English lyftyme, equivalent to life + time. Cognate with Icelandic líftími (“lifetime”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Lieuwendstied, Dutch leeftijd and levenstijd, German Low German Levenstied, German Lebenszeit, Danish livstid, Swedish livstid.
Pronunciation
Noun
lifetime (plural lifetimes)
- The duration of the life of someone or something.
- Synonym: lifespan
- a project that will take many human lifetimes to complete
- the operational lifetime of an aircraft component
- comes with a lifetime warranty
- (informal, hyperbolic) A long period of time.
- I've been waiting a lifetime for a train.
- Synonyms: ages, (UK slang) donkey's years, eternity, (UK slang) years, yonks
Hypernyms
Derived terms
- all in a lifetime, all in one's lifetime
- carrier lifetime
- chemical lifetime
- customer lifetime value
- fluorescence lifetime imaging
- give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
- legend in one's own lifetime
- lifetime achievement award
- lifetime average daily dose
- lifetime cap
- lifetime employment
- lifetime exposure
- lifetime income tax
- lifetime job
- lifetime learning credit
- lifetime maximum benefit amount
- lifetime mobility
- lifetime mortgage
- lifetime payment cap
- lifetime policy
- life-timer
- lifetime rate cap
- lifetime reserve days
- lifetime reverse mortgage
- lifetime risk
- lifetime value
- lifetime warranty
- maximum segment lifetime
- mean lifetime
- minority carrier lifetime
- object lifetime
- of a lifetime
- once-in-a-lifetime
- segment lifetime
Translations
duration of the life of someone or something
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informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time
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