lifetimePronunciation: /ˈlʌɪftʌɪm/Translate lifetime | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish 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:fifteen shops closed during the lifetime of the scheme informal a very long period of time:five weeks was a lifetime, anything could have happenedPhrases 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 lifetimelifetime in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of lifetime in the US English dictionary