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life path

life path is the alternative form of lifepath.

Meaning of lifepath

Noun

lifepath (plural lifepaths)

  1. One's path through life, as determined by the decisions one makes.
    • It comes about as rational actors make informed choices between realistic alternative lifepaths, always taking responsibility for the consequences that those choices will have on their own cumulative life stories[…]2005, Mark A. Young, Negotiating the good life: Aristotle and the civil society, page 7

Forms of life path

plurallife paths

Questions about life path

What is life path the alternative form of?
Life path is the alternative form of lifepath.

Words near life path in the dictionary

  1. life of the party
  2. life off
  3. life or death
  4. life partner
  5. life partners
  6. life path
  7. life paths
  8. life peer
  9. life peers
  10. life plan
  11. life plans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: life path (page history and authors); lifepath (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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