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a history of a person's life<our assignment is to write a short life of an author of our own choosing>— see biography
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a member of the human race<an appalling number of lives were lost in the war>— see human
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active strength of body or mind<even though heʼs 86 years old, he still shows a lot of life>— see vigor 1
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the period during which something exists, lasts, or is in progress<the Egyptian civilization had an extremely long life>— see duration 1
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the way people live at a particular time and place<frontier life must have been rugged, exciting, challenging, and not a little dangerous>— see civilization 1
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