lifestyle
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noun
1.
the habits, attitudes, tastes, moral standards, economic level, etc., that together constitute the mode of living of an individual or group.
adjective
2.
pertaining to or catering to a certain lifestyle: unhealthy lifestyle choices; lifestyle advertising; a luxury lifestyle hotel.
3.
(of a drug) used to treat a medical condition that is not life-threatening or painful: lifestyle drugs for baldness.
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lifestyle (ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a set of attitudes, habits, or possessions associated with a particular person or group |
| 2. | such attitudes, etc, regarded as fashionable or desirable |
| 3. | (NZ) |
| a. a luxurious semirural manner of living | |
| b. (as modifier): a lifestyle property | |
| —adj | |
| 4. | suggestive of a fashionable or desirable lifestyle: a lifestyle café |
| 5. | (of a drug) designed to treat problems, such as impotence or excess weight, which affect a person's quality of life rather than his or her health |
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Lifestyle
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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Medical Dictionary
lifestyle or life-style or life style
n.
A way of life or style of living that reflects the attitudes and values of a person or group.
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Example sentences
Perhaps life is too busy, change too difficult and having to reduce your lifestyle is unacceptable.
His is the life of programmer-as-rock-star-often spent among real-life rock stars-with the lifestyle that that implies.
The frogs' lifestyle is so thoroughly arboreal that, instead of laying eggs in water, the frogs deposit their eggs in trees.
The place where the priorities are made more murky by profit is the me-too and lifestyle drugs.
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