TIME OF LIFE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does time of life mean? 

• TIME OF LIFE (noun)
  The noun TIME OF LIFE has 1 sense:

1. a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state

  Familiarity information: TIME OF LIFE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIME OF LIFE (noun)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("time of life" is a kind of...):

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

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

deathbed (the last few hours before death)

mid-sixties; sixties (the time of life between 60 and 70)

golden years (the time of life after retirement from active work)

mid-seventies; seventies (the time of life between 70 and 80)

eighties; mid-eighties (the time of life between 80 and 90)

mid-nineties; nineties (the time of life between 90 and 100)

bloom; bloom of youth; salad days (the best time of youth)

adulthood; maturity (the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed)

bachelorhood (the time of a man's life prior to marriage)

middle age (the time of life between youth and old age (e.g., between 40 and 60 years of age))

widowhood (the time of a woman's life when she is a widow)

age; eld; geezerhood; old age; years (a late time of life)

fifties; mid-fifties (the time of life between 50 and 60)

forties; mid-forties (the time of life between 40 and 50)

mid-thirties; thirties; thirty-something (the time of life between 30 and 40)

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

neonatal period (the first 28 days of life)

babyhood; early childhood; infancy (the early stage of growth or development)

childhood (the time of person's life when they are a child)

schooldays; schooltime (the time of life when you are going to school)

youth (the time of life between childhood and maturity)

adolescence (the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood)

prepuberty (a period of two years immediately prior to the onset of puberty when growth and changes leading to sexual maturity occur)

puberty; pubescence (the time of life when sex glands become functional)

teens (the time of life between the ages of 12 and 20)

mid-twenties; twenties (the time of life between 20 and 30)

Holonyms ("time of life" is a part of...):

life; life-time; lifespan; lifetime (the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death))