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Life

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English

Pronunciation

  • /laɪf/, /laIf/

Noun

life (Plural: lives)

  1. The state that precedes death and follows birth or conception .
  2. In biology, a status given to an entity including animals, plants, fungi, and sometimes viruses, etc, with the properties of replication and metabolism.
  3. A worthwhile existence.
  4. The world in general, existence. (in life you should remember...)
  5. Something which is inheritantly part of a person's existence, such as their job, their family, their loved one, etc.
  6. (Colloquial) A sentence imprisoning a convict until his or her death. More formally phrased life sentence.

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Translations

  • العربية : حياة
  • Afrikaans: lewe
  • Bulgarian: живот
  • Basque: bizi , bizitza , existentzia
  • Breton: buhez f -ioù pl
  • Catalan: vida f
  • Chinese characters: ,
  • Chinese: 生命 ; 生物 ; 终生 ; 人生
  • Dutch: leven n
  • Esperanto: vivo
  • Estonian: elu
  • Finnish: elämä , henki , eläminen
  • French: vie f
  • German: Leben n (1,2,3,4,5); lebenslänglich (6)
  • Greek: ζωή
  • Guarani: tekove
  • Hawaiian: ola, nohona , noho ʻana
  • Hebrew: חיים (Haim, pronounce khah-yim)
  • Hindi: ज़िंदगी
  • Ido: vivo
  • Indonesian: hidup , kehidupan
  • Interlingua: vita
  • Irish: saol m, beatha f
  • Italian: vita f
  • Japanese: (いのち ), 生命 (せいめい)
  • Kurdish: jiyan f
  • Lingala : bomɔi
  • Lithuanian: gyvybė f (1, 2); gyvenimas m (4, 5)
  • Norwegian: liv
  • Persian: زِندِگی (zendegi)
  • Polish: życie n
  • Portuguese: vida f
  • Romanian: viaţă f
  • Romanica: vita f
  • Slovak: život m (1 - 5), doživotie n (6)
  • Slovene: življenje n (1-5)
  • Spanish: vida f
  • Swedish: liv n
  • Tupinambá: tekobé
  • Turkish: yaşam , hayat
  • Vietnamese:
  • Welsh: bywyd m



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