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lifelong

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life·long  (lflông, -lng)
adj.
Continuing for a lifetime.

lifelong [ˈlaɪfˌlɒŋ]
adj
lasting for or as if for a lifetime
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.lifelong - continuing through life; "a lifelong friend"; "from lifelong habit"; "his lifelong study of Greek art"
long - primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified; "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long"

lifelong
adjective long-lasting, enduring, lasting, permanent, constant, lifetime, for life, persistent, long-standing, perennial, deep-rooted, for all your life her lifelong friendship with the woman
Translations
lifelong [ˈlaɪflɒŋ] ADJde toda la vida
lifelong [ˈlaɪflɒŋ] adj [friendship, friend] → de toujours; [ambition, dream] → de toute une vie
She had a lifelong passion for aeroplanes → Elle s'était de tout temps passionnée pour les avions.
He had a lifelong interest in mountains → Il s'était de tout temps intéressé à la montagne. lifelong learning
lifelong learning néducation f permanente
life member nmembre m à vie
life peer n (British)pair m à vie
life preserver n (US) (= life jacket) → gilet m de sauvetage
lifelong [ˈlaɪfˌlɒŋ] adj (ambition) → di tutta la mia or sua vita; (friend) → di sempre
lifelong [ˈlaɪfˌlɒŋ] adj (ambition) → di tutta la mia or sua vita; (friend) → di sempre


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I tell you it is a lifelong wrong, and a lifelong loss; but thank heaven, they don't do it now.
She opened her treasure-drawer: there lay the ear-rings and the locket--the signs of all her short happiness--the signs of the lifelong dreariness that was to follow it.
But he kept his affection for certain poets of the graver, not to say gloomier sort, and he must have suffered his children to read them, pending that great question of their souls' salvation which was a lifelong trouble to him.
 
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