lifeway

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lifeway

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From Middle English *lif-wei (attested as lifes wege, lives wegas), from Old English līfweġ. By surface analysis, life + way.

noun lifeways

One's path through life; a lifestyle or behaviour, now especially when seen as traditional. 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.
Similar: lifestyle, way of life

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@misc{lifeway_2026,
  title = {lifeway},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lifeway},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}