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LIFESPAN

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Dictionary entry overview: What does lifespan mean?

• LIFESPAN (noun)
The noun LIFESPAN has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: LIFESPAN used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• LIFESPAN (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

life-time; lifespan; lifetime; life

Context examples:

the battery had a short life / he lived a long and happy life

Hypernyms ("lifespan" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Meronyms (parts of "lifespan"):

birth (the time when something begins (especially life))

death; demise; dying (the time when something ends)

time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)

age; eld (a time in life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lifespan"):

afterlife; hereafter (life after death)

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