Meaning

4 senses
  1. A prisoner sentenced to life in prison.

    Lebenslänglicher, Lebenslängliche

    пожи́зненникpožíznennik, пожи́зненницаpožíznennica

    a prisoner serving a term of life imprisonment

  2. A prisoner sentenced to transportation for life.

  3. A person with a singular career path, especially in the military.

    Berufssoldat, Berufssoldatin

  4. A species seen for the first time by a birder or other naturalist who is keeping a list of all the species they have seen.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Stefan was locked up with lifers.

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Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
prisoner sentenced to life in prison:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
prisoner sentenced to life in prison:
person who makes a career in the military:

Forms

plural: lifers
Singularlifer
Plurallifers

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

3 related words
Derivednonlifer

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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