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life
A	noun
	1	life
			living things collectively; "the oceans are teeming with life"
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚life ╚wildlife
	2	liveliness, life, spirit, sprightliness
			animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚attribute ╚trait ╚activeness; activity ╚animation; spiritedness; invigoration; brio; vivification ╚liveliness, life, spirit, sprightliness ╚pep; peppiness; ginger ╚exuberance; enthusiasm; ebullience ╚high-spiritedness ╚irrepressibility; buoyancy ╚breeziness; jauntiness ╚esprit ╚elan ╚energy; vigor; vigour; vim ╚alacrity; briskness ╚airiness; delicacy
	3	life, living
			the experience of living; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"
		Category Tree: psychological feature ╚cognition; knowledge; noesis ╚content; cognitive content; mental object ╚experience ╚life, living
	4	biography, life, life story, life history
			an account of the series of events making up a person's life
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚indication; indicant ╚evidence ╚record ╚history; account; chronicle; story ╚biography, life, life story, life history ╚Parallel Lives ╚profile ╚hagiography ╚autobiography
	5	life
			a motive for living; "pottery was his life"
		Category Tree: psychological feature ╚motivation; motive; need ╚life
	6	life
			a living person; "his heroism saved a life"
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚person; individual; someone; somebody; mortal; human; soul ╚life
	7	life
			the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones; "there is no life on the moon"
		Category Tree: phenomenon ╚natural phenomenon ╚organic phenomenon ╚life ╚aerobiosis ╚biology
	8	life
			the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living; "he hoped for a new life in Australia"; "he wanted to live his own life without interference from others"
		Category Tree: state ╚being; beingness; existence ╚life
	9	animation, life, living, aliveness
			the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"
		Category Tree: state ╚being; beingness; existence ╚animation, life, living, aliveness ╚survival; endurance ╚skin ╚eternal life; life eternal
	10	life
			a characteristic state or mode of living; "social life"; "city life"; "real life"
		Category Tree: state ╚being; beingness; existence ╚life ╚ghetto
	11	life, lifetime, lifespan
			the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death); "the battery had a short life"; "he lived a long and happy life"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚measure; quantity; amount ╚fundamental quantity; fundamental measure ╚time period; period of time; period ╚life, lifetime, lifespan ╚afterlife; hereafter ╚life expectancy
	12	life
			the period between birth and the present time; "I have known him all his life"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚measure; quantity; amount ╚fundamental quantity; fundamental measure ╚time period; period of time; period ╚life
	13	life
			the period from the present until death; "he appointed himself emperor for life"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚measure; quantity; amount ╚fundamental quantity; fundamental measure ╚time period; period of time; period ╚life ╚days; years
	14	life sentence, life
			a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives; "he got life for killing the guard"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚measure; quantity; amount ╚fundamental quantity; fundamental measure ╚time period; period of time; period ╚term ╚prison term; sentence; time ╚life sentence, life

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