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Grammar : Noun
Spell : lahyf-wurk
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlaɪfˈwɜrk



Definition of lifework

  • noun person's calling
Example sentences :
  • The man who should be proud and glad that I have found my lifework—speaking to me like that!
  • Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • To communicate how it is possible to do this became Dr. Frankl's lifework.
  • Extract from : « When You Don't Know Where to Turn » by Steven J. Bartlett
  • The sea was his mistress, and fighting the Spaniards was his lifework.
  • Extract from : « The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 » by Various
  • I am sure that I have mistaken my lifework, if I consider Greek my lifework.
  • Extract from : « The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I » by Burton J. Hendrick
  • All this is surely part of an author's lifework; so I am writing appositely.
  • Extract from : « My Life as an Author » by Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • What was the lifework he was raised up to do, and how did he do it?
  • Extract from : « My Life as an Author » by Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • If a man hates his lifework, he is very likely to hate his life.
  • Extract from : « The Measure of a Man » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
  • During the long period of our engagement I became almost as well prepared for my lifework as Carl was for his.
  • Extract from : « How To Write Special Feature Articles » by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer
  • If these things were not indispensable for a fair conception of his lifework, I should certainly not have dwelt on them.
  • Extract from : « Ludvig Holberg, The Founder of Norwegian Literature and an Oxford Student » by Simon Christian Hammer
  • And Milne sailed the next Tuesday to begin his lifework among the rough hills of Newfoundland.
  • Extract from : « Boys' Second Book of Inventions » by Ray Stannard Baker

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