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lifehold

lifehold noun: land held by a life estate.

Noun

lifehold (countable and uncountable, plural lifeholds)

  1. Land held by a life estate.
    • He was quite angry with circumstances for so heedlessly inflicting on Giles a second trouble when the needful one inflicted by himself was all that the proper order of events demanded. "I told Giles's father when he came into those houses not to spend too much money on lifehold property held...1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, chapter XV, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

Forms of lifehold

plurallifeholds

Origin of lifehold

From life + hold.

Questions about lifehold

What does lifehold mean?
Lifehold means land held by a life estate.
What part of speech is lifehold?
Lifehold is a noun.
What is the plural of lifehold?
The plural of lifehold is lifeholds.

Words near lifehold in the dictionary

  1. lifehack
  2. lifehacker
  3. lifehackers
  4. lifehacking
  5. lifehacks
  6. lifehold
  7. lifeholder
  8. lifeholders
  9. lifeholds
  10. lifejacket
  11. lifejacketed

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