Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The chief or entire work of a person's lifetime.
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- noun The main
occupation orvocation of a person's life.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the principal work of your career
Etymologies
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Examples
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A lifework is given true substance and value only by the vital individual who puts his life into the struggle.
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His lifework is The Magic Door, a sequence, written over a period of some 35 years.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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Given his use of the crowquill pen's scratchy yet fluid lifework, his images reflected the tonal richness and improvisational flights of fancy of many of musicians he stylized such as Charlie Parker, Bud Powell and Billie Holiday.
Brad Balfour: Closing This Weekend -- Two Shows of Artists Who Use Music as Inspiration Brad Balfour 2011
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Like the Dutch artist Vermeer two hundred years earlier, most of Gattorno's lifework was in his house when he died.
Discovering Gattorno sean m. poole 2011
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Given his use of the crowquill pen's scratchy yet fluid lifework, his images reflected the tonal richness and improvisational flights of fancy of many of musicians he stylized such as Charlie Parker, Bud Powell and Billie Holiday.
Brad Balfour: Closing This Weekend -- Two Shows of Artists Who Use Music as Inspiration Brad Balfour 2011
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On display since September, this is the last chance to see this comprehensive summation of Bourgeois's lifework.
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Given his use of the crowquill pen's scratchy yet fluid lifework, his images reflected the tonal richness and improvisational flights of fancy of many of musicians he stylized such as Charlie Parker, Bud Powell and Billie Holiday.
Brad Balfour: Closing This Weekend -- Two Shows of Artists Who Use Music as Inspiration Brad Balfour 2011
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So several potential honorees had their lifework duly poked, prodded and manhandled, separating the sf from the fantasy.
Making Sausages frankwu 2010
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Given his use of the crowquill pen's scratchy yet fluid lifework, his images reflected the tonal richness and improvisational flights of fancy of many of musicians he stylized such as Charlie Parker, Bud Powell and Billie Holiday.
Brad Balfour: Closing This Weekend -- Two Shows of Artists Who Use Music as Inspiration Brad Balfour 2011
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The manuscript of Crispin's reputedly masterly lifework, The Bridges Ablaze, a novel on which he has been labouring for decades, goes missing around the time of his death.
Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco Joseph O'Connor 2010
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