lifestyle
Americannoun
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lifestyles
plural
adjective
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pertaining to or catering to a certain lifestyle.
unhealthy lifestyle choices; lifestyle advertising; a luxury lifestyle hotel.
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(of a drug) used to treat a medical condition that is not life-threatening or painful.
lifestyle drugs for baldness.
noun
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a set of attitudes, habits, or possessions associated with a particular person or group
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such attitudes, etc, regarded as fashionable or desirable
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a luxurious semirural manner of living
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( as modifier )
a lifestyle property
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adjective
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suggestive of a fashionable or desirable lifestyle
a lifestyle café
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(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
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of lifestyle
Explanation
Your lifestyle is how you live, and it reflects who you are. You might try to look cool by adopting a rock star lifestyle of partying every night and sleeping all day, but you'd probably get pretty tired. A lifestyle can also reflect your attitude or your personal values. For example, you might have a very conservative lifestyle, which means you don't spend money on anything trivial or unnecessary, and you don't engage in silly activities. A glamorous lifestyle means you indulge in upscale, high-profile pursuits and live luxuriously. If you've got some bad habits, your doctor might encourage you to adopt a healthier lifestyle, and get more exercise and eat more carefully.
Example Sentences
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What many Norwegians did question, though, was whether her former party lifestyle was one compatible with that of someone married to the future king.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Kathleen Hughes, a former reporter in the Journal's New York and Los Angeles bureaus, writes about travel and lifestyle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
“The scheme relied on Love’s creation of fictitious personas and display of a lavish lifestyle which Love presented to victims both in person and on social media websites,” federal authorities said in a press release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
That setting, combined with the animal's anatomy, suggests C. praecursor lived an amphibious, semi-aquatic lifestyle in humid habitats along the boundary between water and land.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
But there is a fatal flaw in this reasoning: plant domestication is not a matter of hunter-gatherers’ domesticating a single plant and otherwise carrying on unchanged with their nomadic lifestyle.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
I’d wager that’s a large part of why “It Ends” feels blessedly removed from the hype of internet media, yet still very much in conversation with the fixations and lifestyles of Gen Z audiences.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
As these relationships developed in different places, dogs acquired specialized characteristics suited to the environments, lifestyles and needs of the people around them.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
California has long been known as a progressive state that embraces evolving lifestyles, but when it comes to auto insurance, it seems stuck in the 1950s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
The ritzy neighbourhood was made globally famous by K-pop star Psy's 2012 hit single "Gangnam Style" -- lauding the lifestyles of its ultra-rich residents.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
We want to know what they’re like—what kind of personalities they have, or how intelligent they are, or what kind of lifestyles they have, or what special talents they might have been born with.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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