good life

American  

noun

1. a life abounding in material comforts and luxuries.

2. a life lived according to the moral and religious laws of one's culture.

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Etymology

Origin of good life

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

He suggests that the magazine’s poems have “represented the country’s wildly divergent visions of a good life—and railed against thwarted hopes for it.”

From The Wall Street Journal

I am committed to making California a state that continues to provide opportunities to build a good life and not price people out of one.

From The Wall Street Journal

"So I'd say, yeah, I'm living a very good life."

From BBC

And, depending on whether or not we’re able to find it, we fear losing that good life to death, or hope that death will bring the joy we couldn’t always grasp in life.

From Salon

Some analysts now argue that what China faces is not only a cyclical slowdown but a generational rethink of what a “good life” looks like.

From MarketWatch