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alife

alife adverb: with all one's heart; dearly. Also the alternative form of A-life.

Adverb

alife (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) with all one's heart; dearly.
    • Saffron loueth a-life to be trampled and trod vpon.1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C....
    • A busie fellow loveth a-life to step secretly into a house.1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC

Noun (1) capitalized: ALife

ALife (uncountable)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of A-life (artificial life)

Noun (2) capitalized: Alife

Alife (uncountable)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of A-life (artificial life)

Noun (3) capitalized: aLife

aLife (uncountable)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of A-life (artificial life)

Also used as

alife is also the alternative form of A-life.

Origin of alife

Compare lief (“dear”).

Abbreviation of artificial life.

Questions about alife

What does alife mean?
Alife means with all one's heart; dearly.
What part of speech is alife?
Alife can be an adverb or a noun.

Words near alife in the dictionary

  1. alieve
  2. alieved
  3. alieves
  4. alieving
  5. alif
  6. alife
  7. alifedrine
  8. aliferous
  9. Aliff
  10. Aliffs
  11. aliflurane

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Adapted from Wiktionary: alife (page history and authors); ALife (page history and authors); Alife (page history and authors); aLife (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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