life

/laɪf/

意味: 生命、人生

例文: Fluffin wondered about the meaning of life.
　　  フラッフィンが人生の意味を考えていた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: life experience(人生経験), life cycle(ライフサイクル), life insurance(生命保険)

定義: 人間や動物が生きている状態や期間を指します。生きている間に経験することや、存在することも含まれます。また、生命そのものや、生活の仕方、人生の意味を考えることもあります。

lifeは約1,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a characteristic state or mode of living
Noun: the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
Noun: the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living
Noun: the condition of living or the state of being alive
Noun: the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)
Noun: the period between birth and the present time
Noun: the period from the present until death
Noun: a living person
Noun: animation and energy in action or expression
Noun: living things collectively
Noun: the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones
Noun: an account of the series of events making up a person’s life
Noun: a motive for living
Noun: a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

Life is full of unexpected surprises.(人生は予期せぬ驚きで満ちている。)
She values every moment of life.(彼女は人生の一瞬一瞬を大切にしている。)
Life teaches us important lessons daily.(人生は毎日重要な教訓を教えてくれる。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: social life
Noun: city life
Noun: real life
Noun: he could no longer cope with the complexities of life
Noun: he hoped for a new life in Australia
Noun: he wanted to live his own life without interference from others
Noun: while there’s life there’s hope
Noun: life depends on many chemical and physical processes
Noun: the battery had a short life
Noun: he lived a long and happy life
Noun: I have known him all his life
Noun: he appointed himself emperor for life
Noun: his heroism saved a life
Noun: it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it
Noun: the oceans are teeming with life
Noun: there is no life on the moon
Noun: pottery was his life
Noun: he got life for killing the guard

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): aliveness, animation, biography, life, life history, life sentence, life story, life-time, lifespan, lifetime, liveliness, living, spirit, sprightliness

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): animation, being, experience, history, living thing, motivation, organic phenomenon, person, prison term, time period

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abator, abiogenesis, abjurer, abomination, abstainer, achiever, acquaintance, acquirer, active, actor, actuality, adjudicator, admirer, adoptee, adult, adventurer, adversary, advisee, advocate, affiant, african, agnostic, air alert, alternation of generations, amateur, amerindian, ancient, ancient history, animation, annals, annual ring, anomaly, anti, anti-american, applicant, appointee, appreciator, apprehender, aquarius, archaist, aries, arrogator, assessee, asthmatic, authority, autodidact, baby boomer, baby buster, bad guy, bad person, baldhead, balker, bather, beard, bedfellow, bereaved, best, bimester, bimillennium, bioelectricity, biography, biont, birth, biter, black, blogger, blond, bluecoat, bodybuilder, bomber, bout, bronze age, brunet, bullfighter, buster, calendar day, calendar month, cancer, candidate, capitalist, capricorn, captor, case, case history, cashier, celebrant, cell, censor, century, chameleon, changer, charmer, child, chirpiness, chutzpanik, circulation, closer, clotting time, clumsy person, coexistence, collector, color-blind person, combatant, commoner, communicator, complexifier, compulsive, computer user, contemplative, contestant, convert, copycat, counter, counterterrorist, coward, crawler, creator, creature, creditor, cripple, cyclosis, dancer, dawn, day, dead person, deaf person, death, debaser, debtor, decade, decay, defecator, dehiscence, delayer, deliverer, demander, desquamation, diapedesis, dieter, differentiator, disentangler, disputant, dissenter, divider, dog days, domestic partner, dominance, double, downtime, dresser, dribbler, drought, drug user, duration, dyslectic, ectomorph, effecter, elapsed time, elizabethan, emotional person, endomorph, engineer, enjoyer, enlistment, enrollee, entertainer, era, eternity, ethical motive, ethnic, etymology, eve, evening, exfoliation, experimenter, expert, explorer, extrovert, face, facilitation, faddist, faller, fastener, female, festival, fiduciary, field day, first-rater, flower, follower, food chain, food pyramid, food web, fortnight, free agent, friend, fugitive, gainer, gambler, gatekeeper, gatherer, gemini, gene expression, generation, gentile, golden age, good guy, good person, granter, great year, greeter, grinner, groaner, grunter, guesser, half life, half-century, handicapped person, hard time, hater, heterosexual, histocompatibility, historical document, homosexual, homunculus, honeymoon, hope, hoper, hospitalization, hour, hours, huddler, hugger, immune, incubation period, indian summer, indiction, individualist, inhabitant, innocent, insured, intellectual, interpreter, introvert, iron age, irrational motive, jat, jew, jewel, jumper, junior, juvenile, killer, kink, kneeler, knocker, knower, lactation, large person, latin, laugher, leader, learner, lease, left-hander, leo, libra, life, life cycle, life sentence, lightning rod, linguist, literate, liveliness, liver, long run, long time, longer, loose cannon, loved one, lover, lustrum, machine, mailer, malcontent, male, man, man jack, manipulator, married, masturbator, measurer, mesomorph, mestizo, mid-april, mid-august, mid-december, mid-february, mid-january, mid-july, mid-june, mid-march, mid-may, mid-november, mid-october, mid-september, middlebrow, midweek, midwinter, millennium, miracle man, misogamist, mixed-blood, modern, money handler, monolingual, morning, mother hen, mouse, multistage, mutilator, namer, namesake, national, native, neglecter, neighbor, neutral, night, nondescript, nonmember, nonparticipant, nonpartisan, nonperson, nonreligious person, nonresident, nonsmoker, nonworker, novitiate, nude, nurser, occultist, occupation, olympiad, optimist, organism, orphan, ostrich, ouster, outcaste, outdoorsman, overtime, owner, pamperer, pansexual, pardoner, partner, party, passer, past, peacetime, peer, perceiver, percher, person of color, personage, personification, perspirer, phase, phase of the moon, philosopher, picker, pisces, pisser, planner, player, pleomorphism, polymorphism, possibility, posturer, powderer, precursor, preexistence, prehistory, presence, preserver, primitive, prohibition, propositus, psychic energy, public relations person, puerperium, pursuer, pussycat, quadrennium, quarter, quarter-century, question time, quinquennium, quitter, radical, rainy day, rational motive, real time, realist, recital, recognition, rectifier, redhead, registrant, regulation time, reign, rejection, rejuvenation, relative, reliever, religious person, reliving, reminder, repeater, rescuer, rester, restrainer, revenant, rich person, right-hander, riser, romper, roundhead, ruler, run, running time, rusher, sagittarius, school, scientist, scorpio, scratcher, season, second-rater, seeder, seeker, segregate, self, semester, sensualist, sentimentalist, sex linkage, sex object, sex symbol, shaker, shelf life, showman, signer, silly season, silver age, simpleton, six-footer, skidder, slav, slave, sleep, sleepyhead, sloucher, small person, smasher, smiler, sneezer, sniffer, sniffler, snuffer, snuffler, socializer, sort, sounding board, sphinx, spitter, sport, sprawler, spurner, squinter, stifler, stigmatic, stooper, stranger, struggler, study hall, subject, subsistence, supernumerary, surrenderer, survivalist, survivor, suspect, tagger, tapper, taurus, tempter, term, termer, terror, testator, thin person, third-rater, thrower, tide, tiger, time, time frame, time limit, time of life, time off, times, totemist, toucher, transcendence, transfer, transsexual, transvestite, travel time, traveler, trial period, trier, trimester, turner, tyrant, undoer, unfortunate, unskilled person, unwelcome person, uptime, urge, usance, user, vanisher, victim, victorian, virgo, visionary, visually impaired person, waiter, waker, walk-in, wanter, ward, warrior, wartime, watch, watcher, weakling, weasel, week, weekend, white, wiggler, window, winker, withholder, witness, work time, worker, world, worldling, yawner, year, youth

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): aerobiosis, afterlife, airiness, alacrity, autobiography, biology, breeziness, days, elan, energy, esprit, eternal life, exuberance, ghetto, hagiography, high-spiritedness, irrepressibility, pep, pertness, profile, skin, survival, wildlife

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: alive, biographer, biographical, lifer, live, lively, spirit, spiritize, sprightly

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: science

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: conversation

Grammatical Notes:

countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検5級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, Finding Nemo, Frozen, The Bad Guys, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: