CHANGE OF LIFE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does change of life mean? 

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

1. the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHANGE OF LIFE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

change of life; climacteric; menopause

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

biological time (the time of various biological processes)

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

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

 Context examples 

A complete change of life became desirable.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)