See life on Wiktionary
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{ "forms": [ { "form": "life", "raw_tags": [ "Singular" ] }, { "form": "lives", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "2": "lives" }, "expansion": "[POS TABLE]", "name": "noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "examples": [ { "text": "Scientists want to learn if there is life on other planets." } ], "glosses": [ "Life is what makes a person, animal or plant grow and function." ] }, { "examples": [ { "text": "The life of an ant is not as long as the life of a human." }, { "text": "The lives of great men and women are very interesting." }, { "text": "He never left his home town in his life." } ], "glosses": [ "Life is the time when people, animals or plants grow and exist before they die. Your life is the time that you live." ] }, { "examples": [ { "text": "We brought the company back to life, after it had been closed for 5 years." } ], "glosses": [ "The state of something being in existence." ] } ], "sounds": [ { "enpr": "līf" }, { "ipa": "/laɪf/" }, { "sampa": "/laIf/" }, { "audio": "en-us-life.ogg", "raw_tags": [ "Audio" ], "tags": [ "US" ] }, { "audio": "en-uk-life.ogg", "raw_tags": [ "Audio" ], "tags": [ "UK" ] } ], "word": "life" }
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