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lifelong

adj
/ˈlaɪf.lɔːŋ/

Etymology

From life + -long.

  1. derived from *leyp-✻ — “to stick, glue”
  2. inherited from *lībą✻ — “life, body”
  3. inherited from *līb✻
  4. inherited from līf
  5. inherited from lyf
  6. suffixed as lifelong — “life + -long”

Definitions

  1. Extending for the entire duration of life.

    • They were lifelong friends; they met in elementary school and ended their lives in the same rest home.
    • He studied English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and developed a lifelong interest in medieval history as a result of reading Chaucer.
    • She bought the model as a surprise gift for a friend who is a lifelong HST fan and railwayman, and who will soon be celebrating a milestone birthday.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lifelong. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA