adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lifelong commitment
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Marriage is a lifelong commitment.
a lifelong companion (= someone who lives or spends time with someone throughout their life )
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Lucinda was her best friend and lifelong companion.
a lifelong dream (= that you have had all your life )
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His lifelong dream had been to write a novel.
a lifelong friend (= someone who has been your friend for the whole of your life )
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The two men were lifelong friends.
a lifelong friendship
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The two men formed a lifelong friendship.
a lifelong passion
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His lifelong passion for natural history began in childhood.
a lifelong/long-held ambition (= one that you have had all your life )
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It’s been her lifelong ambition to work with horses.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ambition
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It's taken artist, Chris Fiddes, 60 days to complete, the realisation of a lifelong ambition .
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She says it's been a lifelong ambition to work with horses.
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Stephen admits he's unlikely to realise his lifelong ambition of playing for Aston Villa.
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In 1990, however, David finally realised his lifelong ambition .
dream
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One saves up for a lifelong dream , another spends all she has on a summer decades ago.
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Has he traded notoriety and this brief moment for his lifelong dream ?
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His is not the usual tale of an athlete fueled by passion, fulfilling a lifelong dream at the Olympic Games.
friend
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The merchant was flushed with drink; he grinned at Cranston and Athelstan as if they were lifelong friends .
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The prosecuting attorney was a lifelong friend of both Wilfred and Mark.
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At Puente Ruinas she lost her glasses and we all searched for them as if she had been our lifelong friend .
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Alvin met the genial master poet Langston Hughes, who became a lifelong friend and confidant.
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Subsequently we became lifelong friends , sailed many miles together and shared many adventures.
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It was around this time that he met George Underwood who was to become a lifelong friend .
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He likes his neighbors, but Arizona is too far from the ocean and too far from family and lifelong friends .
friendship
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When it does work, lifelong friendships can be forged with those you might never otherwise have been likely to meet.
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Theirs is a complex and lifelong friendship , even when the tumult of the times separates them for many years.
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Salisbury spoke-with great emotion, almost in tears-of his lifelong friendship .
interest
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He made outstanding contributions to all branches of children's surgery but his lifelong interest was the aetiology of malformations.
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A cure for cancer was one interest , almost a lifelong interest.
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He is a distinguished astrophysicist with a lifelong interest in space.
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Lowther's lifelong interest was in the development of his estates in Cumberland.
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David Howard's lifelong interest in chemistry and the chemical industry was not limited to manufacture.
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A wine merchant by profession, with a well-established business in the Minories, he had a lifelong interest in cricket.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a lifelong relationship
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It was her lifelong ambition to write a best-selling novel.
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My father was a lifelong supporter of the Democrats.
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The two remained lifelong friends.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At Puente Ruinas she lost her glasses and we all searched for them as if she had been our lifelong friend.
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His lifelong condition causes a variety of motor impairments.
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His boss is a lifelong politician.
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However, considerations of long term safety are also important as lifelong maintenance treatment is usually recommended.
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I have a lifelong experience of banking, and have had to act constantly on personal judgment.
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Otis, who bore lifelong grudges over provocations infinitely smaller than this, was realistic enough to know when he was had.
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She had been introduced to competitive shooting by her husband, Georgean engineer and a lifelong competitive shooter.