way of life
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2.4
- noun
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modo de vida
- Over hundreds of years, they had developed a way of life based on hunting, gathering, and shifting cultivation.
- cultures and ways of life
- American way of life
- whole way of life
Does Homer actually produce a way of life that we can follow?
- Does Homer actually produce a way of life that we can follow?
- But that whole way of life is just so fascinating to me.
- That's their way of life, that's their business.
- I think for our way of life as we know it, it's game over.
- That Union, that federal government is destroying their way of life and their future.
- They wanted to maintain their traditional ways of life because that's who they were.
- He says those who live in chastity have an angelic way of life on earth.
- And we are mourning the loss of a way of life.
- It's really a way of life that that art form helped popularize.
- that have shared with us their secrets and their way of life and what they know that we've forgotten.
- But even if you didn't lose a person, we all lost a way of life and we all lost freedoms.
- My job is to ensure that I link agriculture to a better way of life for our people.
- So, yeah, I mean, it's the way of life is so different.
- And that became a way of life for kind of two years.
- And it, it's disrupted the whole way of life that they, they, they had.
- Religion is not is a way of life as an approach to life.
Examples
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I can't tell you how glad I am to see you begin to understand our way of life.
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The nomadic tribes have a unique way of life that is deeply connected to nature.
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I think for our way of life as we know it, it's game over.
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How do you feel about the way of life that you are at the moment living?
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And it's cool to see the way of life here in just a couple days.
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It's our way of life.
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The way of life can be free and beautiful.
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That Union, that federal government is destroying their way of life and their future.
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Cultures change slowly because they are basic to the way of life of a people.
Academic text (1990) -
They wanted to maintain their traditional ways of life because that's who they were.
Synonyms
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1.0
A particular way of living that includes daily activities and relationships
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2.3
The way a person lives, including habits and daily choices
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7.7
A group's usual customs and daily life
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a manner or style of living' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'way' (manner) with 'life' (living), with 'of' serving as the linking preposition. This is a common noun-of-noun compositional pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents should readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Way of life gives a simple picture: imagine a path someone walks every day, a way that shapes their life. So, it means 'habits, values, and daily life' of a person or group.