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

   • 1988, “(Nothing But) Flowers”, in Naked, performed by Talking Heads:

     Don't leave me stranded here / I can't get used to this lifestyle

   • 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.

   • 2023 January 19, Kristen Rogers, Megan Marples and Rachel Fadem, “Life lessons from 6 money and lifestyle coaches”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     As we scroll through the curated lifestyles of the influencers we follow on Instagram or YouTube, it can seem like they have it all together and never had to suffer a day in their lives.

   • 2025 March 30, Scottie Andrew, “Queer and trans homesteaders are conquering the social media frontier”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     And yet queer and transgender people are finding a place in a lifestyle that, at least online, often occupies the same digital space as content from conservative creators, said Devin Proctor, an assistant professor of anthropology at Elon University in North Carolina who studies how we construct identities online.

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 creep
• lifestyle disease
• lifestyle drug
• lifestyle inflation
• lifestyler
• lifestylism
• lifestylist
• wifestyle

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)
• Hindi: जीवनशैली f (jīvanśailī), जीवनचर्या (hi) f (jīvancaryā)
• 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
• Tamil: வாழ்வியல் (ta) (vāḻviyal), வாழ்க்கை முறை (vāḻkkai muṟai)
• 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.