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📖 Определения и значения для слова lifetime

📒 the length of time that somebody lives or that something lasts

  • a lifetime of experience
  • in/during somebody's lifetime His diary was not published during his lifetime.
  • in the lifetime of something These spending commitments are not achievable in the lifetime of the present government.

📒 a wonderful opportunity, etc. that you are not likely to get again

  • When she was offered the job she knew it was the chance of a lifetime.
  • the trip/experience/opportunity of a lifetime
  • It was the holiday of a lifetime!

📒 used to describe something special that is not likely to happen to you again

  • An opportunity like this comes once in a lifetime.
  • a once-in-a-lifetime experience
  • That sort of thing happens only once in a lifetime.
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