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lifeway

lifeway noun: one's path through life; a lifestyle or behaviour, now especially when seen as traditional.

Noun

lifeway (plural lifeways)

  1. (Canada and US or puristic, otherwise archaic) One's path through life; a lifestyle or behaviour, now especially when seen as traditional.
    • And as under colonialism, in most cases ‘traditional’ values and lifeways were treated as a barrier to economic growth and social progress, and were often purposefully eradicated.2017, Jason Hickel, “Neoliberalism Comes Home”, in The Divide […] , London: William Heinemann, →ISBN

Synonyms of lifeway

Forms of lifeway

plurallifeways

Origin of lifeway

From Middle English *lif-wei (attested as lifes wege, lives wegas), from Old English līfweġ. By surface analysis, life + way.

Questions about lifeway

What does lifeway mean?
Lifeway means one's path through life; a lifestyle or behaviour, now especially when seen as traditional.
What part of speech is lifeway?
Lifeway is a noun.
What is the plural of lifeway?
The plural of lifeway is lifeways.

Words near lifeway in the dictionary

  1. lifetime jobs
  2. lifetimes
  3. lifevest
  4. lifevests
  5. lifeward
  6. lifeway
  7. lifeways
  8. lifewide
  9. lifework
  10. lifeworks
  11. lifeworld

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