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life-long

life-long is the alternative form of lifelong.

Meaning of lifelong

Adjective

lifelong (not comparable)

  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.

Origin of life-long

From life + -long.

Questions about life-long

What is life-long the alternative form of?
Life-long is the alternative form of lifelong.

Words near life-long in the dictionary

  1. Life-like cellular automata
  2. Life-like cellular automaton
  3. Life-like cellular automatons
  4. life-line
  5. life-lines
  6. life-long
  7. life-lore
  8. life-or-death
  9. life-preserver
  10. life-preservers
  11. life-ruining

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Adapted from Wiktionary: life-long (page history and authors); lifelong (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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