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life-time

life-time is the alternative spelling of lifetime.

Meaning of lifetime

Noun

lifetime (plural lifetimes)

  1. The duration of the life of someone or something.
    • a project that will take many human lifetimes to complete
    Synonyms:
    lifespan
  2. (excessive, informal) A long period of time.
    • I've been waiting a lifetime for a train.

Forms of life-time

plurallife-times

Questions about life-time

What is life-time the alternative spelling of?
Life-time is the alternative spelling of lifetime.

Words near life-time in the dictionary

  1. life-styles
  2. life-support
  3. life-telling
  4. life-tellings
  5. life-threatening
  6. life-time
  7. life-times
  8. life/dinner principle
  9. lifeaholic
  10. lifeaholics
  11. lifebar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: life-time (page history and authors); lifetime (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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