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life list

life list noun: a cumulative list of all the bird species a birder has ever sighted and identified.

Noun

life list (plural life lists)

  1. A cumulative list of all the bird species a birder has ever sighted and identified.
    • I added twenty species for the year, fourteen of which I couldn't hope to see anywhere else but Mike forked out a lot of money to come a long way with not a single addition to his life list to show for it.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 112
  2. A wishlist of things to accomplish during one's lifetime.
    Synonyms:
    bucket list

Synonyms of life list

Forms of life list

plurallife lists
alternative formlifelist

Questions about life list

What does life list mean?
Life list means a cumulative list of all the bird species a birder has ever sighted and identified.
What part of speech is life list?
Life list is a noun.
What is the plural of life list?
The plural of life list is life lists.

Words near life list in the dictionary

  1. life jackets
  2. life lesson
  3. life lessons
  4. life line
  5. life lines
  6. life list
  7. life lists
  8. life long
  9. life lore
  10. life mask
  11. life masks

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