Plural of life
irregular plural
The plural of life is lives.
Forms of life
| Singular | life /ˈlaɪ̯f/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | lives /lɪvz/ |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Lives in a sentence
- Many lives were lost during the war. Her quick thinking saved many dogs' lives.
- Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891
- She lives a mile or two away, in the next village.From the entry next
- Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives.From the entry cost
- The army won the battle decisively, but at a cost of many lives.From the entry cost
Meaning of life
- noun The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and living.
- noun The status possessed by any of a number of entities, including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and sometimes viruses, which have the properties of replication and metabolism.
- noun The animating principle or force that keeps an inorganic thing or concept metaphorically alive (dynamic, relevant, etc) and makes it a “living document”, “living constitution”, etc.
Nouns ending in -fe: plural -ves
Questions about the plural of life
- What is the plural of life?
- The plural of life is lives.
- Is life countable?
- Life is a countable and uncountable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: life (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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