lifeday

English

Alternative forms
  • life-day

Etymology

From Middle English lif-day; equivalent to life +‎ day.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlʌɪfdeɪ/

Noun

lifeday (plural lifedays)

  1. (now rare, archaic) A day of someone's life; chiefly in plural: a lifetime. [from 9th c.]
    • c. 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section I:
      For loth in his lifdayes · for likyng of drynke / Dede bi his douȝtres · þat þe deuel lyked.

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