lifeway
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.61 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One's path through life; a lifestyle or behaviour, now especially when seen as traditional.
Example Sentences
- "And as under colonialism, in most cases ‘traditional’ values and lifeways were treated as a barrier to economic growth and social progress, and were often purposefully eradicated."
Etymology
From Middle English *lif-wei (attested as lifes wege, lives wegas), from Old English līfweġ. By surface analysis, life + way.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *lifwei, līfweġ