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WALK OF LIFE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does walk of life mean? 

WALK OF LIFE (noun)
  The noun WALK OF LIFE has 1 sense:

1. careers in generalplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


WALK OF LIFE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Careers in general

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

walk; walk of life

Context example:

it happens in all walks of life

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

calling; career; vocation (the particular occupation for which you are trained)


 Context examples 


It may seem impossible to you that one in my humble walk of life should bear a deadly and implacable hatred against a man in the position of Captain Barrington.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

People in the books, in her walk of life, did not talk about such things—perhaps they did not know about them, either.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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