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say it: LAHY-flawng
lifelong is an adjective meaning "continuing through life". It carries one recorded sense.
continuing through life
“a lifelong friend”
“from lifelong habit”
“his lifelong study of Greek art”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lifelong come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.