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life long

life long is the alternative form of lifelong.

Meaning of lifelong

Adjective

lifelong (not comparable)

  1. Extending for the entire duration of life.
    • They were lifelong friends; they met in elementary school and ended their lives in the same rest home.

Questions about life long

What is life long the alternative form of?
Life long is the alternative form of lifelong.

Words near life long in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: life long (page history and authors); lifelong (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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