English
Etymology
From life + style.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl/
- enPR: līfʹstīl'
Noun
lifestyle (plural lifestyles)
- A style of living that reflects the attitudes and values of a person or group.
- Synonyms: lifeway, way of life
2004, Monty Armstrong, David Daniel, Abby Kanarek, Cracking the AP World History Exam, 2004-2005, The Princeton Review, page 328:The Neolithic Revolution (about 8000-3000 B.C.E.) was characterized by people moving from nomadic lifestyles to agricultural lifestyles.
2005, H Reese Scott, Embracing Emily:I ended my aimless-roaming-short-term-odd-jobs lifestyle and joyfully went to work at a local restaurant in Langley Park, Maryland, as a carhop.
- (marketing) The totality of the likes and dislikes of a particular section of the market, especially when expressed in terms of the products and services that they would buy; a marketing strategy based on the self-image of such a group.
Derived terms
Translations
style of living
- Afrikaans: leefstyl
- Arabic: نَمَط الحَيَاة (namaṭ al-ḥayāh)
- Basque: bizimodu, bizimolde
- Bulgarian: начин на живот m (način na život)
- Catalan: estil de vida m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 生活方式 (zh) (shēnghuó fāngshì), 生態 / 生态 (zh) (shēngtài), 方式 (zh) (fāngshì)
- Czech: životní styl m, způsob života m
- Danish: livsstil (da) c
- Dutch: levensstijl (nl) m
- Esperanto: vivmaniero, vivostilo
- Faroese: lívsháttur m, lívsstílur m
- Finnish: elämäntapa (fi)
- French: mode de vie (fr) m, hygiène de vie (fr) f
- Galician: estilo de vida m
- German: Lebensstil (de) m, Lebensweise (de) f, Lebenswandel (de) m
- Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐌼𐌴𐍄 n (usmēt)
- Greek: τρόπος ζωής m (trópos zoḯs)
- Ancient: δίαιτα f (díaita)
- Hebrew: אֹרַח חַיִּים (he) m (órakh khayím)
- Hungarian: életmód (hu)
- Interlingua: stilo de vita
- Irish: stíl mhaireachtála f
- Italian: stile di vita (it) m
- Japanese: ライフスタイル (ja) (raifu sutairu), 生活様式 (せいかつようしき, seikatsu yōshiki), 生き方 (いきかた, ikikata)
- Kazakh: өмір салты (ömır salty), тұрмыс қалпы (tūrmys qalpy)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: şêwaza jiyanê
- Latin: vīctus (la) m
- Latvian: dzīvesveids (lv) m
- Lithuanian: gyvensena f
- Macedonian: жи́вотен стил m (žívoten stil)
- Malay: gaya hidup
- Maori: āhua noho, kātū noho
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: илышкокла (ilyškokla)
- Norwegian: livsstil (no) m
- Occitan: biais de viure m
- Plautdietsch: Läwensstiel n
- Polish: styl życia (pl) m, tryb życia (pl) m
- Portuguese: estilo de vida m
- Romanian: stil de viață n
- Russian: стиль жи́зни (ru) m (stilʹ žízni), о́браз жи́зни (ru) m (óbraz žízni), лайфста́йл (ru) m (lajfstájl)
- Scottish Gaelic: dòigh-beatha f
- Southern Altai: јӱрӱмниҥ кеби (ǰürümniŋ kebi)
- Spanish: estilo de vida m, forma de vida f, vivienda (es) f, modo de vivir (es) m, género vital m, estilo vital m
- Swedish: livsstil (sv) c
- Thai: วิถีชีวิต, ไลฟ์สไตล์
- Turkish: yaşam biçimi (tr), yaşam tarzı (tr)
- Welsh: ffordd o fyw (cy)
- Yiddish: לעבנסטיל m (lebnstil)
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Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English lifestyle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /laifesˈtail/ [lai̯.fesˈt̪ai̯l]
- Rhymes: -ail
Noun
lifestyle m (plural lifestyles)
- (marketing) lifestyle
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.