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lifetime noun [ ˈlʌɪftʌɪm ]

• the duration of a person's life.
• "a reward for a lifetime's work"
Similar: lifespan, life, days, duration of life, allotted span, course of life, time on earth, existence, one's time, one's career, one's threescore years and ten, this mortal coil, one's born days,

of a lifetime

• (of a chance or experience) such as does not occur more than once in a person's life.
• "because of Frankie she had rejected the opportunity of a lifetime"

once in a lifetime

• (of a chance or experience) unlikely to occur more than once in a person's life.
"being part of the Commonwealth Games has been a once in a lifetime experience"

of a lifetime

• (of a chance or experience) such as does not occur more than once in a person's life.
"because of Frankie she had rejected the opportunity of a lifetime"



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