way of life
Definition of way of life
1 : the habits, customs, and beliefs of a particular person or group of people Unhampered development is threatening these farmers' way of life.
2 : an important activity, job, etc., that affects all parts of someone's life For me, tennis is not just a sport, it's a way of life.
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: a thoroughfare for travel or transportation from place to place
: an opening for passage
: the course traveled from one place to another : route
: of, connected with, or constituting an intermediate point on a route
: by a long distance : to a considerable degree or extent : far
: by far : much
: very
: the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body
: a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings
: an organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism (see metabolism 1), growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction
: of or relating to animate being
: lifelong
: using a living model
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