change of life

1. 1.

   the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends

   Synonymsmenopauseclimacteric

   Broaderbiological time

   Part ofmiddle age

Questions about change of life

What does change of life mean?

change of life means "the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends".

What is another word for change of life?

Close synonyms include menopause, climacteric. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is change of life a common word?

change of life is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.