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life-style

life-style is the alternative form of lifestyle.

Meaning of lifestyle

Noun

lifestyle (plural lifestyles)

  1. A style of living that reflects the attitudes and values of a person or group.
    • Don't leave me stranded here / I can't get used to this lifestyle1988, “(Nothing But) Flowers”, in Naked, performed by Talking Heads
    Synonyms:
    lifeway, way of life
  2. The totality of the likes and dislikes of a particular section of the market, especially when expressed in terms of the products and services that they would buy; a marketing strategy based on the self-image of such a group.

Forms of life-style

plurallife-styles

Questions about life-style

What is life-style the alternative form of?
Life-style is the alternative form of lifestyle.

Words near life-style in the dictionary

  1. life-sentenced
  2. life-size
  3. life-sized
  4. life-source
  5. life-sources
  6. life-style
  7. life-styles
  8. life-support
  9. life-telling
  10. life-tellings
  11. life-threatening

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Adapted from Wiktionary: life-style (page history and authors); lifestyle (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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