TIME OF LIFE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does time of life mean? 

• TIME OF LIFE (noun)
  The noun TIME OF LIFE has 1 sense:

1. a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state

  Familiarity information: TIME OF LIFE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIME OF LIFE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("time of life" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "time of life"):

forties; mid-forties (the time of life between 40 and 50)

deathbed (the last few hours before death)

age; eld; geezerhood; old age; years (a late time of life)

widowhood (the time of a woman's life when she is a widow)

middle age (the time of life between youth and old age (e.g., between 40 and 60 years of age))

bachelorhood (the time of a man's life prior to marriage)

adulthood; maturity (the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed)

bloom; bloom of youth; salad days (the best time of youth)

mid-nineties; nineties (the time of life between 90 and 100)

eighties; mid-eighties (the time of life between 80 and 90)

mid-seventies; seventies (the time of life between 70 and 80)

golden years (the time of life after retirement from active work)

mid-sixties; sixties (the time of life between 60 and 70)

fifties; mid-fifties (the time of life between 50 and 60)

mid-thirties; thirties; thirty-something (the time of life between 30 and 40)

mid-twenties; twenties (the time of life between 20 and 30)

teens (the time of life between the ages of 12 and 20)

puberty; pubescence (the time of life when sex glands become functional)

prepuberty (a period of two years immediately prior to the onset of puberty when growth and changes leading to sexual maturity occur)

adolescence (the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood)

youth (the time of life between childhood and maturity)

schooldays; schooltime (the time of life when you are going to school)

childhood (the time of person's life when they are a child)

babyhood; early childhood; infancy (the early stage of growth or development)

neonatal period (the first 28 days of life)

age; eld (a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises)

summer (the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty)

Holonyms ("time of life" is a part of...):

life; life-time; lifespan; lifetime (the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death))

 Context examples 

I do not know; but I can hardly suppose that, at Admiral Croft's time of life, and in his profession, he should not have many acquaintance in such a place as this.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I understand you—and a very proper plan it is for a person at your time of life, with such limited means and indifferent connexions.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

At our time of life it is not so pleasant, I can tell you, to be making new acquaintances every day; but for your sakes, we would do anything.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

For the rest of his character and habits, they were marked, as far as Elinor could perceive, with no traits at all unusual in his sex and time of life.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I couldn't think of doing the honours of the feast, at my time of life, while he was by; my hand shook at the very thought of it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The time of life when a woman’s ovaries stop producing hormones and menstrual periods stop.

(Menopause, NCI Dictionary)

Mr. Martin is now awkward and abrupt; what will he be at Mr. Weston's time of life?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Men at his time of life do not change all their habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for the lonely life of an English provincial town.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That little boys and girls should be tormented, said Henry, is what no one at all acquainted with human nature in a civilized state can deny; but in behalf of our most distinguished historians, I must observe that they might well be offended at being supposed to have no higher aim, and that by their method and style, they are perfectly well qualified to torment readers of the most advanced reason and mature time of life.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

How her temper and understanding might bear the investigation of his present keener time of life was another concern and rather a fearful one.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)