lifeway
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English *lif-wei (attested as lifes wege, lives wegas), from Old English līfweġ, corresponding to life + way.
Noun
[edit]lifeway (plural lifeways)
- (now chiefly Canada, US) One's path through life; a lifestyle or behaviour, now especially when seen as traditional.
- Synonyms: lifestyle, way of life
- 2017, Jason Hickel, “Neoliberalism Comes Home”, in The Divide […] , London: William Heinemann, →ISBN:
- And as under colonialism, in most cases ‘traditional’ values and lifeways were treated as a barrier to economic growth and social progress, and were often purposefully eradicated.