highlife
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.06 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A genre of music that originated in Ghana in the early 20th century, blending elements of traditional Akan music with Western instruments and ideas.
Uncountable
name
A Life-like cellular automaton with the rule B36/S23.
name
Alternative letter-case form of Highlife.
Example Sentences
- "Anwar took the broom away from the Congolese cleaner – whose name I did not know, whose name no one ever thought to ask – and made her dance with him, to some highlife he had going on the transistor radio he carried everywhere."
- "Then he left the stage and listened to us playing highlifes."
- "Several of the city's most prominent ensembles started to incorporate foreign rock 'n' roll numbers into their existing repertories of ballroom, calypsos, and highlifes."
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Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Music.