What does lifetime mean?

Definitions for lifetime
ˈlaɪfˌtaɪmlife·time

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word lifetime.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. life, lifetime, life-time, lifespannoun

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

    "the battery had a short life"; "he lived a long and happy life"

Wiktionary

  1. lifetimenoun

    The duration of the life of someone or something.

  2. lifetimenoun

    A long period of time.

    I've been waiting a lifetime for a train.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Lifetimenoun

    Continuance or duration of life.

    Etymology: life and time.

    Jordain talked prose all his life-time, without knowing what it was. Joseph Addison, on ancient Medals.

ChatGPT

  1. lifetime

    Lifetime is the duration or period of time during which a living being, object, or phenomenon exists or continues to function or be valid. For a living being, lifetime refers to the period between its birth and death. For an object or product, it is the length of time that it remains usable, functional, or in service. For a phenomenon or concept, it refers to its relevant or influential duration.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Lifetimenoun

    the time that life continues

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'lifetime' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4804

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'lifetime' in Nouns Frequency: #1904

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lifetime in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lifetime in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of lifetime in a Sentence

  1. Salim Virani:

    The risk enhancers may increase a patient's short-term, 10-year risk, or in some cases, their lifetime risk of having a cardiovascular event, then those guidelines recommend that clinicians should err on the side of early treatment, something not considered in The Task Force The Task Force, but I do want to emphasize, even if clinicians were to take the more conservative The Task Force recommendations and follow them very, very aggressively, we definitely will see a population-level impact because of the statin therapy. The Task Force's really been studied for a very, very long time and now we know The Task Force works.

  2. Anne McTiernan:

    Equally problematic was that they classified men and women the same in relation to categories of alcohol use. Women metabolize alcohol differently than men, so a' light' drinker for men may be more of a' moderate' drinker for women, the study strengths included the large sample size, including both women and men, and a lifetime history of alcohol use.

  3. Heather Clayton:

    We learned from the 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey that nearly one in 10 high school students had used synthetic marijuana at some point in their lifetime.

  4. Clint Krislov:

    We're pleased we will be able to go forward to enforce the lifetime benefits these wonderful people earned.

  5. Jim Blankenship:

    The idea is to get some income coming in early but also look at the cumulative lifetime cash flow.

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