Lifestyle

Definition: Lifestyle

Lifestyle

Noun

1. A manner of living that reflects the person's values and attitudes lifetime n : the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death); "the battery had a short life"; "he.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Lifestyle

Crosswords: Lifestyle

Really? Well, it's an alternative lifestyle. (Manhattan Murder Mystery; writing credit: Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman. Starring Woody Allen as Larry Lipton, Diane Keaton as Carol Lipton, Alan Alda as Ted, and Anjelica Huston as Marcia Fox.)

I got a swanky lifestyle. I'm used to the best (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Boy, I envy Sammy and his carefree lifestyle. (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang)

Children would only get in the way of our erotic lifestyle! (Polyester; writing credit: John Waters)

I mean, I glued mine on. For you it's an actual lifestyle choice (3000 Miles to Graceland; writing credit: Richard Recco; Demian Lichtenstein)

American Lifestyle (1972)

The Lifestyle (1999)

Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle (1995)

A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle (1994)

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References

• First Lifestyle Holdings Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Lifestyle Furnishings International Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2001 Report on Men’s Lifestyle Magazines: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Teenage Fashion and Lifestyle Magazines (reference)

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Books

• Lifestyle Evangelism (reference)

• The Complete James Bond Lifestyle Seminar (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Consumer Health Lifestyle (reference)

• Country Lifestyle Magazine (reference)

• Lifestyle & Wellness (reference)

• Lifestyle Asia (reference)

• Lifestyle Magazine (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Cruising Lifestyle, Vol 3-Mexico (reference)

• Successful Independent Lifestyle (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Power Classics! Classical Music for Your Active Lifestyle (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Bose Lifestyle 28 Home Entertainment System (Black) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Lifestyle All-Purpose Stroller - Morning Glory (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Pictured is a Japanese-American family. There is a mother, father and a pre-school boy. They are seated in an outdoor restaurant and are eating hamburgers and drinking milk. Because Japanese-Americans tend to marry among themselves, factors other than genetic must be examined for cancer incidence. Diet and other lifestyle variations are being studied. Japanese who emigrate to California and change their lifestyles, seem to have an increased incidence of colon cancer. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Shown are groups of people biking. The setting is summer and in the country. This is meant to indicate that one's lifestyle and environment can influence one's health status. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Shown is an outdoor summer scene in a treed area with a lake visible. Also seen are two runners in shorts. This is the cover photograph to the "Decade of Discovery" section entitled, "Lifestyle, Environment and Cancer". Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

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"I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle," he muttered to himself.

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Health

About changes in your lifestyle. (references)

Many patients can control CHD with lifestyle changes and medication. (references)

It often requires a great deal of adjustment in outlook and lifestyle. (references)

Business

This European lifestyle is distinctively different from that of the typical American. (references)

The trend toward the so-called natural lifestyle also bodes well for the nutritional supplements industry. (references)

There is a marked renewed trend in Germany toward the recognition and appreciation of physical fitness as part of a healthy lifestyle. (references)

Civil Liberties

Iran

The main participants in the unrest were young persons, who appeared to use the situation to show their general displeasure with the restrictive lifestyle imposed on them by the Government. (references)

Uzbekistan

The Government does not allow the general distribution of foreign newspapers and other publications; however, two or three Russian newspapers and a variety of Russian tabloids and lifestyle publications are available. (references)

Belgium

Some courts in the Flanders region continued to stipulate, in the context of child custody proceedings and as a condition of granting visitation rights, that a noncustodial parent who is a member of Jehovah's Witnesses may not expose his or her children to the teachings or lifestyle of that religious group during visits. (references)

Economic History

Argentina

U.S. lifestyle and consumption habits are increasingly influential. (references)

Italy

The Italian youth market is especially interested in lifestyle foods such as American beer and salted corn chips. (references)

Brazil

U.S. sporting goods products enjoy a good level of acceptance because Brazilians tend to emulate the American lifestyle. (references)

Human Rights

Colombia

However, the high security wing of La Picota prison in Bogota has undergone renovations that have altered considerably this comfortable lifestyle. (references)

Indigenous People

Finland

Sami receive subsidies to enable them to continue their traditional lifestyle, which revolves around reindeer herding. (references)

Minorities

Tanzania

These ethnic groups continued to seek compensation for past government discrimination seeking to make them adopt a more modern lifestyle and to restrict their access to pastoral lands that were turned into large government wheat farms. (references)

Travel

Luxembourg

The country is blessed with an intense and varied cultural life, and is highly regarded for its acceptance of foreign goods and persons and its overall lifestyle and family-oriented values system. (references)

Women

Czech Republic

However, employers often openly used such factors as age, sex, and lifestyle in their employment solicitations and advertising. (references)

Tanzania

While provisions of the law provide for certain inheritance and property rights for women, the application of customary, Islamic, or statutory law depends on the lifestyle and stated intentions of the male head of household. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "lifestyle": get used to a different lifestyle ♦ Living Foods Lifestyle. Additional references.

Beginning with "lifestyle": lifestyle-building, lifestyle-oriented.

Chinese 

�"�活方式 (life-style). (various references)

Dutch

lifestyle-geneesmiddel (lifestyle drug), met een levenswijze verbonden ziekte (lifestyle disease), aan de leefwijze gebonden ziekte (lifestyle disease). (various references)

French

maladie liée au mode de vie (lifestyle disease), médicament de bien-être (lifestyle drug). (various references)

German

lebensstil (fashion, modus vivendi, way of life). (various references)

Greek 

τρόπος ζωής (way of life). (various references)

Hungarian

életstílus. (various references)

Italian

stile di vita (life style). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"�活様式 (one's lifestyle), コカの木 (coca tree, Coca-Cola, cocaine, cockpit, cocoa, COCOM, COCOM list, Coordinating Committee for Export to Communist Area, coquette, coquetterie, coquettish, cuckoo, obsessively trend-conscious teen-age girls who may offer themselves for enjou kousai with older men in order to finance their lifestyle, shell). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せいかつようしき (one's lifestyle), コギャル (obsessively trend-conscious teen-age girls who may offer themselves for enjou kousai with older men in order to finance their lifestyle). (various references)

Korean 

생활양식 (life-style). (various references)

Pig Latin

ifestylelay.(various references)

Portuguese

modo de vida (career, living), estilo de vida (life style). (various references)

Russian 

образ жизни (life, living, mode of life, pattern of life, way of life, way of living). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

način života (life style, way of life). (various references)

Spanish

estilo de vida (way of life). (various references)

Thai

วิถีทางการ�"ำเนินชีวิต. (various references)

Ukrainian

спосіб життя (goings on, living, ongoing). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "lifestyle": lifestyles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lifestyle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Iifestyle, Lenfesty, lifestule, lifesylte. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: stellify.

-2 letters: fellest, fellies, felsite, fillets, fleetly, lefties, liefest, tellies.

-3 letters: elites, feisty, feyest, filets, filles, fillet, fleets, fliest, flites, flytes, illest, itself, liefly, listee, listel, sleety, steely, stifle, stilly, tellys.

-4 letters: elite, feels, feist, fells, felly, felts, fetes, files, filet, fille, fills, filly, fitly, flees, fleet, fleys, flies, flite, flits, flyte, islet, istle.

+1 letter: lifestyles.

+3 letters: despitefully.