life
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a characteristic state or mode of living
social life
Types & categories
Sense 2 noun
the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
he could no longer cope with the complexities of life
Types & categories
- experience hypernym
Related & opposite
- live derivation
Sense 3 noun
the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living
he hoped for a new life in Australia
Types & categories
- being hypernym
Sense 4 noun
the condition of living or the state of being alive
while there's life there's hope
Types & categories
- being hypernym
- eternal life hyponym
- skin hyponym
- survival hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 5 noun
the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)
the battery had a short life
Types & categories
Parts & wholes
- birth part meronym
- dying part meronym
- time of life part meronym
- eld part meronym
Related & opposite
- lifer derivation
Sense 6 noun
the period between birth and the present time
I have known him all his life
Types & categories
- period hypernym
Parts & wholes
- past part meronym
Sense 7 noun
the period from the present until death
he appointed himself emperor for life
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- lifer derivation
Sense 8 noun
a living person
his heroism saved a life
Types & categories
- person hypernym
Sense 9 noun
animation and energy in action or expression
it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it
Types & categories
- vivification hypernym
- pertness hyponym
- airiness hyponym
- alacrity hyponym
- vim hyponym
- elan hyponym
- esprit hyponym
- breeziness hyponym
- irrepressibility hyponym
- high-spiritedness hyponym
- ebullience hyponym
- pep hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 10 noun
living things collectively
the oceans are teeming with life
Types & categories
- living thing hypernym
- wildlife hyponym
Sense 11 noun
the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones
there is no life on the moon
Types & categories
- organic phenomenon hypernym
- biology hyponym
- aerobiosis hyponym
Sense 12 noun
an account of the series of events making up a person's life
Types & categories
- account hypernym
- autobiography hyponym
- hagiography hyponym
- profile hyponym
- Parallel Lives instance hyponym
Related & opposite
- biographer derivation
- biographic derivation
Sense 13 noun
a motive for living
pottery was his life
Types & categories
- motivation hypernym
Sense 14 noun
a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives
he got life for killing the guard
Types & categories
- prison term hypernym
Related & opposite
- lifer derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | being |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | ghetto |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | live |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | experience |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | being |
| 4 | attribute | Related & opposite | alivep |
| 4 | attribute | Related & opposite | dead |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | lifer |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | live |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | alivep |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | alivep |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | alivep |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | being |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | eternal life |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | skin |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | survival |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | lifer |
| 5 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | birth |
| 5 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | dying |
| 5 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | time of life |
| 5 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | eld |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | period |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | hereafter |
| 6 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | past |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | period |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | lifer |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | period |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | days |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | person |
| 9 | attribute | Related & opposite | lively |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | spirit |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | spiritize |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | full of life |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | springy |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | spanking |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | racy |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | sprightly |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | vivification |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | pertness |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | airiness |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | alacrity |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | vim |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | elan |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | esprit |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | breeziness |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | irrepressibility |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | high-spiritedness |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | ebullience |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | pep |
| 10 | hypernym | Types & categories | living thing |
| 10 | hyponym | Types & categories | wildlife |
| 11 | hypernym | Types & categories | organic phenomenon |
| 11 | hyponym | Types & categories | biology |
| 11 | hyponym | Types & categories | aerobiosis |
| 12 | derivation | Related & opposite | biographer |
| 12 | derivation | Related & opposite | biographic |
| 12 | hypernym | Types & categories | account |
| 12 | hyponym | Types & categories | autobiography |
| 12 | hyponym | Types & categories | hagiography |
| 12 | hyponym | Types & categories | profile |
| 12 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Parallel Lives |
| 13 | hypernym | Types & categories | motivation |
| 14 | derivation | Related & opposite | lifer |
| 14 | hypernym | Types & categories | prison term |