high life

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high·life or high life (h

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1. Informal An extravagant or luxurious style of living.

2. Popular West African dance music that combines African rhythms and Western-style pop melodies.

high-lifer n.

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Noun

high life - excessive spending

highlife, lavishness, prodigality, extravagance

waste, wastefulness, dissipation - useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources"

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high life n the high life → la vita dell'alta società or del bel mondo

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Let those of high life, therefore, no longer despise the ignorance of their inferiors; nor the vulgar any longer rail at the vices of their betters.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context

This was how the matrons in high life had got over the difficulty of meeting Mrs.

The New Magdalen by Collins, Wilkie View in context

There are scenes of all sorts; some dreadful combats, some grand and lofty horse-riding, some scenes of high life, and some of very middling indeed; some love-making for the sentimental, and some light comic business; the whole accompanied by appropriate scenery and brilliantly illuminated with the Author's own candles.

Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context

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