lifestyle

See also: life-style and life style

English

Alternative forms

• life style, life-style

Etymology

From life +‎ style.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• enPR: līfʹstīl'

Noun

lifestyle (plural lifestyles)

1. 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.

2. (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

• alternative lifestyle
• lifestyle block
• lifestyle disease
• lifestyle drug
• lifestyler

 

Translations

style of living

• Afrikaans: leefstyl
• 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)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English lifestyle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laifesˈtail/ [lai̯.fesˈt̪ai̯l]
• Rhymes: -ail

Noun

lifestyle m (plural lifestyles)

1. (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.