life
life Lexical Profile
life Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.
"Scientists are searching distant exoplanets for any chemical signatures that might indicate the presence of life."
The period between the birth and death of a living thing, or a particular aspect or phase of an individual's existence and experience.
"She spent her entire professional life advocating for better public education."
Living things and organisms collectively, or those of a particular region, habitat, or geological period.
"The coral reef supports an extraordinary diversity of marine life."
Vitality, vigor, or energetic spirit in a person, performance, or activity.
"The young actor brought a remarkable sense of warmth and life to the stage."
A written or recorded account of a person's history and experiences; a biography.
"The historian published a comprehensive two-volume life of the nineteenth-century stateswoman."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English 'lif', meaning animated corporeal existence or time of continuance, derived from Proto-Germanic '*libam' (body, life), which is related to the verb 'live' and originally carried the sense of remaining or continuing.