life-time

Questions about life-time

What does life-time mean?

life-time means "the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)".

How many syllables are in life-time?

life-time has 3 syllables and divides as li-fe--time under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for life-time?

Close synonyms include life, lifetime, lifespan. 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 life-time a common word?

life-time 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.