Antonyms for lifetime

Grammar : Noun

Spell : lahyf-tahym

Phonetic Transcription : ˈlaɪfˌtaɪm

end

Definition of lifetime

Origin : also life-time, early 13c., from life (n.) + time (n.). One word from 19c. Old English had lifdæg in same sense, literally "life day."

noun span of animate being's existence

Example sentences :

In my lifetime—in depression and in war—they have awaited our defeat.
Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various

It takes a lifetime, Mr. Vavasor, to learn where to pay our taxes.
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

Yet he was a rare man, such as few meet with in the course of a lifetime.
Extract from : « Biographical Sketches » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

But the gentler fibers of the man were atrophied by the habits of a lifetime.
Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana

Few men hold such a position in their own lifetime, and have it so acknowledged.
Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde

It seemed a lifetime that he had lived in the noisome atmosphere of a felon's cell.
Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser

The love of a lifetime seemed to tremble in those two words.
Extract from : « The Little Colonel » by Annie Fellows Johnston

It was the chance of a lifetime, especially to one who, like myself, hates heretics.
Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard

This was the last edition revised by the author, and published in his lifetime.
Extract from : « Reflections » by Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

I give him, then, the lifetime of Methuselah, in which to reach his conclusion of proof.
Extract from : « Slavery Ordained of God » by Rev. Fred A. Ross, D.D.

Synonyms for lifetime

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