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lifetime

Syllabification: (life·time)
Pronunciation: /ˈlīfˌtīm/
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Definition of lifetime

noun

  • the duration of a person’s life:a reward for a lifetime’s work
  • the duration of a thing’s existence or usefulness:a plan to extend the lifetime of satellites
  • informal used to express the view that a period is very long:five weeks was a lifetime, and anything could have happened

Phrases

of a lifetime

(of a chance or experience) such as does not occur more than once in a person’s life:because of Frankie she had rejected the opportunity of a lifetime

lifetime in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of lifetime in the British & World English dictionary