slice of life
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English
Etymology
Calque of French tranche de vie.
Pronunciation
Noun
slice of life (plural slices of life)
- A work in a genre (of theater, cinema, literature, manga, etc.) that presents day-to-day happenings with no clear central plot and takes place in a world that mirrors our own.
- An ordinary social occurrence or sequence of events.
- 2003, Thomas C. O'Guinn, Chris T. Allen, Richard J. Semenik, Advertising and Integrated Brand Promotion, page 201:
- […] in the culturally constituted world, but it needs advertising to link it to certain social representations, certain slices of life.
Translations
genre focused on day-to-day life
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Further reading
- “a slice of life”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “a slice of life” (US) / “a slice of life” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “a slice of life”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “a slice of life” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “a slice of life”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “slice of life”, in Collins English Dictionary.