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LIFE SENTENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does life sentence mean?
• LIFE SENTENCE (noun)
The noun LIFE SENTENCE has 1 sense:
1. a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives
Familiarity information: LIFE SENTENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
life; life sentence
Context example:
he got life for killing the guard
Hypernyms ("life sentence" is a kind of...):
prison term; sentence; time (the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned)
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