LIFETIME
Dictionary entry overview: What does lifetime mean?
• LIFETIME (noun)
The noun LIFETIME has 1 sense:
1. the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)
Familiarity information: LIFETIME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• LIFETIME (noun)
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 ("lifetime" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Meronyms (parts of "lifetime"):
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 "lifetime"):
afterlife; hereafter (life after death)
