Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Continuing for a lifetime.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lasting or continuing through life: as, a lifelong struggle with poverty; a lifelong friend.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Lasting or continuing through life.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Extending for the entire duration of life.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective continuing through life
Etymologies
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Examples
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Atlanta is creating what it calls "lifelong communities."
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In it Haggard admits to what he called a lifelong sexual problem.
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Patrick Malarkey, of the Christian Homophobia Coalition, organized protests at the meeting in Houston against the abandonment of what he described as a lifelong dream.
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Born in Bangladesh, Rais Bhuiyan came to the US to pursue what he describes as his "lifelong dream of higher education and to experience the American dream".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Polls in the weeks since the first debate have been volatile, but several have put his party in second place ahead of Brown, who could fall even further after a gaffe in which he called a lifelong Labour supporter a bigot.
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In August 2007, Pierce realized what he called a lifelong dream when P.D. Publishing Inc.
AVN News 2009
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This lifelong is leaving this corrupt party that made a mockery of equality and justice for all. steveda - poconos, PA
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Today, he is pouring nearly $200 million into what has become known as lifelong learning, or college-based education for older adults.
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Although of course that initial sense of excitement didn't last forever, by and large my nine years at Oxford, as undergraduate and graduate, were very happy indeed; not only did I thoroughly enjoy and prosper at my academic work, but I made a variety of friends from all over the world, especially from south and east Asia, with many of whom I have kept in lifelong contact.
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In Finding the Treasure, Sandra Schneiders defines a nun's life as "the total commitment to Christ in lifelong consecrated celibacy lived in community and mission."
Women of God 2002
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