life list

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Noun

life list (plural life lists)

  1. (birdwatching) A cumulative list of all the bird species a birder has ever sighted and identified.
    Hypernym: checklist
    • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 112:
      I added twenty species for the year, fourteen of which I couldn't hope to see anywhere else but Mike forked out a lot of money to come a long way with not a single addition to his life list to show for it.
  2. A wishlist of things to accomplish during one's lifetime.
    Synonym: bucket list

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