Word Meanings - LIFETIME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The time that life continues.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LIFETIME)

• Generation
• Age
• period
• era
• epoch
• lifetime
• offspring
• stock
• race
• origination
• breed
• progeny
• formation

Related words: (words related to LIFETIME)

• PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
• BREVIARY
  summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• LIFETIME
  The time that life continues.
• STOCKER
  One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• BREADEN
  Made of bread.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• STOCKWORK
  A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• STOCK-BLIND
  Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
• BREWER
  One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.
• PERIODONTAL
  Surrounding the teeth.
• BREADFRUIT
  The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found
• BREQUET CHAIN
  A watch-guard.
• BRETFUL
  Brimful. Chaucer.
• EPOCHA
  See ADAMS
• BRENNAGE
  A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds.
• BREVITY
  1. Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life. 2. Contraction into few words; conciseness. Brevity is the soul of wit. Shak. This argument is stated by St. John with his usual elegant brevity and simplicity.
• STOCK
  1. To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like. 2. To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with goods; to stock a farm, that is, to supply
• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• LIBRETTO
  A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music. The words themselves.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• MALCONFORMATION
  Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
• SABRE
  See SABER
• TIMBREL
  A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity. Miriam . . . took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. Ex. xv. 20. (more info) typmanum, Gr. tabl a drum; cf. Per. tambal
• SPANKING BREEZE
  a strong breeze.
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• BROKEN BREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• CROSSBRED
  Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
• BARLEY-BREE
  Liquor made from barley; strong ale. Burns.