• noun:   living things collectively

  Example: "The oceans are teeming with life"

• noun:   the experience of living; the course of human events and activities

  Example: "He could no longer cope with the complexities of life"

• noun:   a motive for living

  Example: "Pottery was his life"

• noun:   a living person

  Example: "His heroism saved a life"

• noun:   the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones

  Example: "There is no life on the moon"

• noun:   the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living

  Example: "He hoped for a new life in Australia"

• noun:   a characteristic state or mode of living

  Example: "Social life"

• noun:   the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)

  Example: "The battery had a short life"

• noun:   the period between birth and the present time

  Example: "I have known him all his life"

• noun:   the period from the present until death

  Example: "He appointed himself emperor for life"

• noun:   animation and energy in action or expression

  Example: "It was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it"

• noun:   an account of the series of events making up a person's life
• noun:   the condition of living or the state of being alive

  Example: "While there's life there's hope"

• noun:   a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives

  Example: "He got life for killing the guard"

• name:  A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #46570)

Related words...
Related quotations...