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life-lore

life-lore is the alternative form of lifelore.

Meaning of lifelore

Noun

lifelore (uncountable)

  1. The knowledge of life or life experiences; wisdom.
    • For who is he that shall hinder thee from being good and simple?" Full of high and pure religious thoughts and beautiful lifelore is this sage, [...]1891, James Vila Blake, Happiness from Thoughts and other Sermons
  2. (archaic or puristic) The study of life; biology.
    • The students of Biology, or, in simple English, of "Life-Lore,” will find matter of the highest interest in many of the papers read at the recent meetings of the British Medical Association at Glasgow.1889, Life Lore, volume 1, page 110

Questions about life-lore

What is life-lore the alternative form of?
Life-lore is the alternative form of lifelore.

Words near life-lore in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: life-lore (page history and authors); lifelore (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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