Dictionary

Type a word in English or Spanish. English is blue, Spanish is rose. Tap any line to hear it.

life

English

🔊 living things collectively
“the oceans are teeming with life”
🔊 the experience of being alive
“he could no longer cope with the complexities of life”
🔊 a motive for living
“pottery was his life”
🔊 a living person
“his heroism saved a life”
🔊 the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones
“there is no life on the moon”
🔊 the course of existence of an individual
“he hoped for a new life in Australia”
🔊 a characteristic state or mode of living
“social life”
🔊 the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)
“the battery had a short life”
🔊 the period between birth and the present time
“I have known him all his life”
🔊 the period from the present until death
“he appointed himself emperor for life”
🔊 animation and energy in action or expression
“it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it”
🔊 an account of the series of events making up a person's life
🔊 the condition of living or the state of being alive
“while there's life there's hope”
🔊 a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives
“he got life for killing the guard”