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life imprisonment

life imprisonment noun: the state of being imprisoned for the rest of one's life.

Noun

life imprisonment (usually uncountable, plural life imprisonments)

  1. (usually) The state of being imprisoned for the rest of one's life.
  2. (Malaysia, usually) A sentence of imprisonment of thirty years.

life imprisonment meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Gujarati

life imprisonment in Hindi

state of being imprisoned
आजीवन कारावास ājīvan kārāvās

life imprisonment in Tamil

ஆயுள் சிறைத் தண்டனை, ஆயுள் சிறைத்தண்டனை

life imprisonment in Kannada

ಜೀವಾವಧಿ ಶಿಕ್ಷೆ

life imprisonment in Gujarati

life imprisonment
જન્મટીપ janmaṭīp
More languagesFewer languages
life imprisonment in Tagalog
habang-buhay na pagkabilanggo, habang-buhaybna pagkakulong, kadena-perpetwa
life imprisonment in Arabic
سَجْن مُؤَبَّد sajn muʔabbad
life imprisonment in Vietnamese
án tù chung thân

Forms of life imprisonment

plurallife imprisonments

Questions about life imprisonment

What does life imprisonment mean?
Life imprisonment means the state of being imprisoned for the rest of one's life.
What is life imprisonment in Hindi?
Life imprisonment in Hindi is आजीवन कारावास (ājīvan kārāvās). See Life imprisonment meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is life imprisonment?
Life imprisonment is a noun.
What is the plural of life imprisonment?
The plural of life imprisonment is life imprisonments.

Words near life imprisonment in the dictionary

  1. life hammers
  2. life happens
  3. life histories
  4. life history
  5. life imitates art
  6. life imprisonment
  7. life imprisonments
  8. life insurance
  9. life insurances
  10. life insurer
  11. life insurers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: life imprisonment (page history and authors); life imprisonment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); life imprisonment (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); જન્મટીપ (Gujarati) (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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