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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written account of one's own life |
| Synonyms: | adventures, bio, biography, confession, diary, experience, journal, letter, letters, life, life story, memoir, personal history, reminiscences, self-portrayal |
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| Main Entry: | history |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chronicle of events |
| Synonyms: | account, annals, autobiography, biography, diary, epic, journal, memoirs, narration, narrative, prehistory, recapitulation, recital, record, relation, report, saga, story, tale, version |
| Main Entry: | life |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | history, biography |
| Synonyms: | autobiography, bio, career, confession, curriculum vitae, journal, life story, memoir, memorial, story |
| Main Entry: | memoir |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | record of experiences |
| Synonyms: | account, anecdote, annal, autobiography, bio, biography, chronicle, confessions, diary, discourse, dissertation, essay, journal, life, life story, memory, monograph, narrative, note, recollection, register, reminiscence, thesis, tractate, transactions, treatise, vita |
| Main Entry: | story |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account, news |
| Synonyms: | adventure, allegory, anecdote, apologue, article, autobiography, beat, biography, book, chronicle, cliffhanger, comedy, conte, description, drama, epic, fable, fairy tale, fantasy, feature, fiction, folktale, gag, history, information, legend, long and short of it, memoir, myth, narration, narrative, news item, nonfiction, novel, old saw, parable, potboiler, recital, record, relation, report, romance, saga, scoop*, sequel, serial, spiel*, tale, tragedy, version, yarn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | life story |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | biography |
| Synonyms: | autobiography, diary, memoir, personal history, profile |
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| Main Entry: | life |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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above ground, aerobic, agamic, agrestian, alive, all alive and kicking, anaerobic, animated, archesporial, autacoidal, azzardly, bacillary, basal, bimanous, biodegradable, biomorphic, bionomic, biped, bircrural, blissom, breathing, celative, crepitous, cryptic, dacryopyostic, deglutitious, diallel, digenous, digoneutic, ditokous, diurnal, dizygotic, edentate, endothermic, epigamic, exogenous, gamic, haploid, hematic, hyperosmic, impar, in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living, indefatigable, lively, living, luxuriant, mammillated, marine, mercurial, metapneustic, microsmatic, motor, multilocular, muriform, myogenic, nizzertit, on this side of the grave, oviparous, ovoviviparous, palamate, paratonic, parthenic, parturient, pelagic, promethean, quick, rank, recuperated, refreshed, refreshing, ruttish, sedentary, sphygmic, spodogenous, stenobathic, tenacious of life, totipotent, untired, unwearied, urled, vegete, vital, vivacious, vivified, vivifying, yeld, zoetic
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| Concept: | Life. |
| Category: | 1. Vitality; vitality in general |
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-nouns
life, vitality, viability; animation; vital spark, vital flame, soul, spirit., respiration, wind; breath of life, breath of one's nostrils; lifeblood; Archeus; existence., vivification; oxygen; vital air, vital force; vitalization; revivification; Prometheus; life to come (destiny)., [Science of life] physiology, biology; animal ecology., nourishment, staff of life (food) [more].
-verbs
be alive; live, breathe, respire; subsist (exist); walk the earth; "strut and fret one's hour upon the stage" [Macbeth]; be spared., see the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw breath, fetch the breath of life, draw the breath of life; quicken; revive; come to life., give birth to (produce); bring to life, put into life, vitalize; vivify, vivificate; reanimate (restore); keep alive, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door; support life., have nine lives like a cat.
-adjectives
living, alive; in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living; on this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animated; animative; lively (active); all alive and kicking; tenacious of life., vital, vitalic; vivifying, vivified; viable, zoetic; Promethean.
-adverbs
vivendi causa.
-phrases
atqui vivere militare est [Seneca]; non est vivre sed valere vita [Martial].
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| Antonyms: | death |
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