PRIME OF LIFE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prime of life mean? 

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

1. the time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRIME OF LIFE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

prime; prime of life

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

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

 Context examples 

I've known it long enough to lose my dread and be happy working for those I love, and don't call yourself old—forty is the prime of life.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She was a woman in the prime of life; of a severe countenance; and subject (particularly in the arms) to a sort of perpetual measles or fiery rash.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“But a cripple!” said I. “What could he have done single-handed against a man in the prime of life?”

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

Only be a loving child to me in my age, and bear with my whims and fancies; and you will do more for an old woman whose prime of life was not so happy or conciliating as it might have been, than ever that old woman did for you.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)