life

noun/laɪf/CEFR A1

জীবন

Meaning

The time a person is alive, or the way they live.

Example sentences

City life is busy.শহরের জীবন ব্যস্ত।
He spent his whole life here.সে তার পুরো জীবন এখানে কাটিয়েছে।

Word forms

plural: lives— জীবনগুলো

Common phrases with “life”

daily lifeদৈনন্দিন জীবন
save a lifeপ্রাণ বাঁচানো
change your lifeজীবন বদলে দেওয়া

A common mistake

Many lifes were lost.→Many lives were lost.

শেষে '-fe' থাকলে বহুবচনে '-ves' হয়: life → lives, knife → knives, wife → wives।

Synonyms & antonyms

Synonyms: existence

Antonyms: death

Forms of “life”

Singular: life
Plural: lives

Similar words, and what each means

existence
অস্তিত্ব; জীবনযাপন
The state of being real or present, or the way a person lives.

Opposite words

death
মৃত্যু
The end of life.

Word family

Words built on the same root. Learning them together is faster than learning them apart.

lifelessadjectiveপ্রাণহীন, নিষ্প্রাণ

“life” elsewhere on EnglishBD

He left for Dubai thinking life would be easier there — the grass is always greener on the other side.
English Idioms about Nature →
A guess is anything else — sensible, likely, true in real life, but unsupported by the text.
Inference Questions in Reading →
Start with the verbs you use every day — make, do, take, have, give, pay — and the four or five nouns that each one carries in your own life: your studies, your work, your travel.
Common English Collocations: Words That Go Together →

Where this word is used

জীবন — বাংলা অর্থ

Check yourself

“life” — এর বাংলা অর্থ কোনটি?
- • খোলা চত্বর (বিশেষত ইতালীয় শহরের)
- • গণঅভ্যুত্থান
- • আত্মতুষ্টি
- • জীবন
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জীবন — life (noun) — জীবন. The time a person is alive, or the way they live.
Which word is closest in meaning to “life”?
- • sitar
- • party
- • existence
- • bush
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existence — existence — অস্তিত্ব; জীবনযাপন. The state of being real or present, or the way a person lives.

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