still life

1. 1.

   a painting of inanimate objects such as fruit or flowers

   Broaderpainting

Questions about still life

What does still life mean?

still life means "a painting of inanimate objects such as fruit or flowers".

Is still life a common word?

still 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.