[lʌɪf], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death
(e.g: the origins of life)

- the existence of an individual human being or animal
(e.g: a disaster that claimed the lives of 266 people)

- the period between the birth and death of a living thing, especially a human being
(e.g: she has lived all her life in the country)

- vitality, vigour, or energy
(e.g: she was beautiful and full of life)

- (in art) the depiction of a subject from a real model, rather than from an artist's imagination
(e.g: the pose and clothing were sketched from life)


Phrases:
- a matter of life and death
- as large as life
- be one's life
- bring to life
- come to life
- do anything for a quiet life
- for dear life
- for the life of me
- frighten the life out of
- get a life
- give one's life for
- larger than life
- life is too short
- lose one's life
- not on your life
- one's life's work
- save one's own life
- save someone's life
- see life
- take one's life in one's hands
- take one's own life
- take someone's life
- that's life
- the life and soul of the party
- this is the life
- to save one's life
- to the life

Origin:
Old English līf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lijf, German Leib ‘body’, also to live