lifetime
/ˈlaɪf.taɪm/noun2 syllables
Lifetime means: the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death).
Synonyms for lifetime8
What does lifetime mean?1
noun
1
the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)“the battery had a short life”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Lifetime in a sentence
- On average, people die once in a lifetime.Ooneykcall
- Minutes turn into hours, hours into days, days, years, and years, a lifetime.purehearted
- All mushrooms are edible, but some only once in a lifetime.Adelpa
- In his lifetime, my father had been my worst enemy.Nuel
- Fear is temporary, but regret can last a lifetime.Nuel
- In my grandmother's lifetime, both telephones and computers have become commonplace.voxbubnya
- There is so much to do, and only a lifetime to do it.CK
- If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.patgfisher
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of lifetime
as a noun
- plural
- lifetimes