high lifen.adj.

Brit.

/ˈhʌɪ lʌɪf/, U.S.

/ˈhaɪ ˈˌlaɪf/, West African English

/ˈ(h)ai ˌlaif/

Forms: see high adj. and n.² and life n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: high adj., life n.

Etymology: < high adj. + life n. (compare high adj. 8a).In sense A. 4 apparently so called because the style was originally associated with high social status.

A. n.

1. A virtuous or holy life; the way of life of people who live on a higher spiritual level than the ordinary. Cf. high living n. 1. Somewhat rare after 15th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > virtue > [noun] > virtuous life

high lifea1225

well-livingc1390

a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 71 (MED) Eftsones bie warr, ȝif ðu behatst god michel god te donn, and heih lif te healden.

c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 185 (MED) Hem þat þorouȝ þe grace of god ben led in to heiȝe lijf forto haue knoweyng of þe blis þat holy chirche abiden after.

a1450 Pater Noster Richard Ermyte (Westm. Sch. 3) (1967) 51 (MED) Vnskilfulnesse in werkis of penaunce be to alle Goddis seruauntis greetly to drede, namely to þat haue chosen or beþ bounden þoruȝ reule to hyȝe lijf & parfit.

1856 J. R. Beard Lett. Grounds & Objects Relig. Knowl. iii. 52 Endow us with the elements of a high life, which shall be spiritual, happy, and endless, like the life of God.

1905 Homiletic Rev. Jan. 52/1 The voice of God calls men from the path where they are going astray to the good way, to the high life, to the better life, the divine life.

2008 B. Winston Transform your Thinking, transform your Life v. 66 My wife and I began living the high life when I got my mind renewed with God's Word.

2. The way of life of or associated with the upper classes or wealthy people; an extravagant or luxurious lifestyle. Now chiefly in to live the high life.In quot. ?a1518: high status or rank.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > aristocratic life

high life?a1518

aristocraticism1860

posh1915

vie de château1924

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun]

higheOE

high life?a1518

towna1616

world1618

grand monde1673

society1693

beau monde1712

fine world1740

monde1765

tonc1770

high society1782

fashion1807

all the world1808

society1840

smart set1851

swelldom1854

Fifth Avenue1858

fashionabledom1859

haut monde1864

the big cheesea1910

higlif1911

haute Bohème1925

café society1937

jet set1949

beautiful people1950

?a1518 H. Watson Ualentyne & Orson (1555) sig. Bb.iv^v I shall gyue you to husbande the puyssaunt kinge Tromparte by the whiche you maye be at all seasons of hyghelyfe and rychely honoured.

1727 D. Defoe Protestant Monastery 6 He had..always liv'd in what we call high Life.

1759 J. Townley (title) High life below stairs.

1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda I. ix. 277 He had merely considered her ladyship as an object of amusement, and an introduction to high life.

1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford viii. 140 One would not have Lady Glenmire think we were quite ignorant of the etiquettes of high life in Cranford.

1892 C. M. Yonge That Stick I. x. 106 Utterly inexperienced as she was, even in domestic, not to say high life.

1912 E. C. Mayne Byron I. xi. 202 The gay little man laid down as an axiom that ‘in high life one meets the best society’.

1917 Jrnl. Amer. Bankers Assoc. Mar. 732/1 A certain youth received $2,000 as his share of his uncle's estate, quit work and lived the high life for a short time.

1941 L. P. Smith Let. 19 Sept. in R. Gathorne-Hardy Recoll. L. P. Smith (1949) 193 Is low life becoming more interesting, or is it as hollow as the High Life I used to frequent?

2009 L. Banker & W. Mullins Britannia in Brief iii. 83 Working-class girls who are suddenly rolling in money and shamelessly living the high life.

3. U.S. regional. Carbon disulphide, used (esp. formerly) as a fumigant and soil disinfectant, or as a stimulant. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > carbon > [noun] > forms of carbon

high life1895

graphene1985

fullerene1987

1895 Ann. Rep. 1894 Texas Agric. Exper. Stations 670 It is well known through the entire State as ‘high life’, and as such is used successfully for killing red ants, prairie dogs, etc.

1947 Democrat 14 Aug. 6/2 Fumigate corn with carbon bisulphide (high life) about two weeks after it is put into the crib.

2009 W. McRae Stick Horses & other Stories Ranch Life 123 Someone informed him that Hokey Pokey was a sure-fire cure for a horse that refused to move, so he bought a bottle. Hokey Pokey, or High Life, was..carbon disulphide.

4. Chiefly in form highlife. Originally: a West African (originally Ghanaian) dance based on the two-step, with an emphasis on the dancer's individual body movements. Later also: a genre of West African (originally Ghanaian) dance music, which blends traditional African rhythms with elements of jazz, swing, and (later) rock; (occasionally) a piece of this music. Frequently attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > dances of other countries > [noun] > Africa

high life1942

kwela1958

Isukuti1972

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > dance music > [noun] > others

galliard1545

passamezzo1568

pavane1591

passy-measure1597

rant1656

passacaglia1659

passacaille1667

chaconne1685

rigadoon1690

passepied1696

rigaudon1708

bourrée1776

minuet de la cour1783

quadrille1802

treble1805

pigeon wing1807

polka1825

redowa1843

polka time1844

écossaise1863

verbunkos1880

drag1901

foxtrot1915

burru1929

rumba1931

palais glide1936

Lambeth Walk1937

jitterbug1939

high life1942

Zydeco1949

hand jive1958

hand jiving1958

hokey-cokey1966

twist1966

chicken scratch1972

smoocher1976

funana1981

New Beat1988

trance dance1988

1942 Punch 21 Jan. 60/2 A boll-dance involves a lorry-load of hired bandsmen from the capital with saxophones... The youngmen [sic] and young ladies perform the fox-trot, the waltz and the high-life.

1951 Afr. Affairs 50 99 The bulk is made up of agitators..complete with their symbols, the flags, the hats, the highlife music.

1955 Times 23 Aug. 10/6 ‘High lifes’, marches, songs in the vernacular of dubious propriety.

1959 Guardian 22 Dec. 5/2 Man, I've got a..West African band... They play high life.

1986 B. Okri Incidents at Shrine (1987) 70 When a highlife record came on he got up and dragged her to the dancefloor.

1996 Esquire Jan. 21/1 ‘The Lord's Prayer’ by the Ghanaian high-life band Super Sweet Talks.

2010 K. Welsh Afr. Dance (ed. 2) 57 Like all African popular dance, highlife emphasizes syncretism.

B. adj.

a. Of high social status; living an extravagant or luxurious lifestyle. Cf. high-lifed adj. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > luxury or luxurious living > [adjective]

delicatea1393

deliciousa1393

voluptuous?a1475

pampereda1529

volupteousa1535

wealy1545

lascivious1589

smoothed1600

luxurious1606

luxuriose1727

high life1733

Vie Parisienne1890

decadent1967

1733 E. Phillips Stage-mutineers i. 5 I love a high Life Character, Mr. Prompter, so well, that I positively will not play this.

1779 R. Graves Columella II. xxxii. 237 Mrs. Abigail (for such this high-life lady really was) said positively she could not admit him into the coach.

1823 Mechanic's Mag. 15 Nov. 188/1 It has become fashionable with some of the high-life men to patronise that abominable and detestable practice of prize fighting.

1858 Ballou's Dollar Monthly Mag. July 17/1 High life people are the same all the world over—most insipid and uniform creatures.

1935 Archit. Rev. 77 64/2 He was busy building for ‘high-life’ America.

1954 M. Sandoz Buffalo Hunters xi. 257 He..drank like the high-life characters he had seen in New York.

2011 O. Guillen in R. Morrissey Ozzie's School of Managem. vii. 176 I don't hang around with the high-life people.

b. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the high life (sense A. 2); (of a place) frequented by upper class or wealthy people.

ΚΠ

a1774 O. Goldsmith Poet. Wks. (1799) 104 No high-life scenes, no sentiment:—the creature Still stoops among the low.

1815 W. Combe Eng. Dance of Death I. 274 With all those hopes, within her heart, That High-life fantasies impart.

1832 Atkinson's Casket Aug. 341 Their intercourse with the least prepossessing portion of society, is set down as ‘high life associations’.

1857 A. Mathews Tea-table Talk I. 50 They furnished..a high-life illustration of Derby and Joan.

1939 Life 24 July 14/2 Fascinations, brilliance, high-life customs, bewildering surroundings.

1955 ‘E. C. R. Lorac’ Ask Policeman iii. 28 Perhaps wealthy Australians were sent back to high-life schools in England in her day.

1978 J. Bayley Ess. Hardy i. 22 It is the kind of high-life tale which Hardy might have exchanged with a rural audience appreciating it without any notion of morbidity.

2002 Village Voice (N.Y.) 8 Jan. 57/3 All the juicy drama of low-life bars, high-life clubs, [etc.].

2. U.S. = high-lifed adj. 2 Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > lively, vivacious, or animated

jollyc1325

lightsomea1382

kedgec1440

fledge?1461

crank1499

frisky?a1500

sprightya1522

frisk1528

sprightful1550

quick-spirited1552

cranking1567

lively1567

quick-sprighted1579

aleger1590

bright-eyed1590

firking1594

sprightly1594

spirituous1601

great-stomached1607

spirity1615

spiritous1628

lifesomec1635

vivacious1645

rattlingc1650

quick-set1653

airy1654

animated1660

sparklinga1704

bob1721

vivace1721

animate1801

high-lifed1859

sassy1859

chippy1865

sparky1883

high-keyed1893

high life1903

peppy1914

pepful1915

jazzy1917

upbeat1947

zappy1969

sparkly1979

1903 A. D. McFaul Ike Glidden in Maine ix. 70 Ike told him..to always drive on the bit, because the colt was a high-life fellow.

1913 J. London Valley of Moon iii. xxi Spanish broke, so don't check her quick... She's high-life, you know.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	high life
释义	high lifen.adj. Brit. /ˈhʌɪ lʌɪf/, U.S. /ˈhaɪ ˈˌlaɪf/, West African English /ˈ(h)ai ˌlaif/ Forms: see high adj. and n.² and life n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: high adj., life n. Etymology: < high adj. + life n. (compare high adj. 8a).In sense A. 4 apparently so called because the style was originally associated with high social status. A. n. 1. A virtuous or holy life; the way of life of people who live on a higher spiritual level than the ordinary. Cf. high living n. 1. Somewhat rare after 15th cent. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > [noun] > virtuous life high lifea1225 well-livingc1390 a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 71 (MED) Eftsones bie warr, ȝif ðu behatst god michel god te donn, and heih lif te healden. c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 185 (MED) Hem þat þorouȝ þe grace of god ben led in to heiȝe lijf forto haue knoweyng of þe blis þat holy chirche abiden after. a1450 Pater Noster Richard Ermyte (Westm. Sch. 3) (1967) 51 (MED) Vnskilfulnesse in werkis of penaunce be to alle Goddis seruauntis greetly to drede, namely to þat haue chosen or beþ bounden þoruȝ reule to hyȝe lijf & parfit. 1856 J. R. Beard Lett. Grounds & Objects Relig. Knowl. iii. 52 Endow us with the elements of a high life, which shall be spiritual, happy, and endless, like the life of God. 1905 Homiletic Rev. Jan. 52/1 The voice of God calls men from the path where they are going astray to the good way, to the high life, to the better life, the divine life. 2008 B. Winston Transform your Thinking, transform your Life v. 66 My wife and I began living the high life when I got my mind renewed with God's Word. 2. The way of life of or associated with the upper classes or wealthy people; an extravagant or luxurious lifestyle. Now chiefly in to live the high life.In quot. ?a1518: high status or rank. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > aristocratic life high life?a1518 aristocraticism1860 posh1915 vie de château1924 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] higheOE high life?a1518 towna1616 world1618 grand monde1673 society1693 beau monde1712 fine world1740 monde1765 tonc1770 high society1782 fashion1807 all the world1808 society1840 smart set1851 swelldom1854 Fifth Avenue1858 fashionabledom1859 haut monde1864 the big cheesea1910 higlif1911 haute Bohème1925 café society1937 jet set1949 beautiful people1950 ?a1518 H. Watson Ualentyne & Orson (1555) sig. Bb.iv^v I shall gyue you to husbande the puyssaunt kinge Tromparte by the whiche you maye be at all seasons of hyghelyfe and rychely honoured. 1727 D. Defoe Protestant Monastery 6 He had..always liv'd in what we call high Life. 1759 J. Townley (title) High life below stairs. 1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda I. ix. 277 He had merely considered her ladyship as an object of amusement, and an introduction to high life. 1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford viii. 140 One would not have Lady Glenmire think we were quite ignorant of the etiquettes of high life in Cranford. 1892 C. M. Yonge That Stick I. x. 106 Utterly inexperienced as she was, even in domestic, not to say high life. 1912 E. C. Mayne Byron I. xi. 202 The gay little man laid down as an axiom that ‘in high life one meets the best society’. 1917 Jrnl. Amer. Bankers Assoc. Mar. 732/1 A certain youth received $2,000 as his share of his uncle's estate, quit work and lived the high life for a short time. 1941 L. P. Smith Let. 19 Sept. in R. Gathorne-Hardy Recoll. L. P. Smith (1949) 193 Is low life becoming more interesting, or is it as hollow as the High Life I used to frequent? 2009 L. Banker & W. Mullins Britannia in Brief iii. 83 Working-class girls who are suddenly rolling in money and shamelessly living the high life. 3. U.S. regional. Carbon disulphide, used (esp. formerly) as a fumigant and soil disinfectant, or as a stimulant. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > carbon > [noun] > forms of carbon high life1895 graphene1985 fullerene1987 1895 Ann. Rep. 1894 Texas Agric. Exper. Stations 670 It is well known through the entire State as ‘high life’, and as such is used successfully for killing red ants, prairie dogs, etc. 1947 Democrat 14 Aug. 6/2 Fumigate corn with carbon bisulphide (high life) about two weeks after it is put into the crib. 2009 W. McRae Stick Horses & other Stories Ranch Life 123 Someone informed him that Hokey Pokey was a sure-fire cure for a horse that refused to move, so he bought a bottle. Hokey Pokey, or High Life, was..carbon disulphide. 4. Chiefly in form highlife. Originally: a West African (originally Ghanaian) dance based on the two-step, with an emphasis on the dancer's individual body movements. Later also: a genre of West African (originally Ghanaian) dance music, which blends traditional African rhythms with elements of jazz, swing, and (later) rock; (occasionally) a piece of this music. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > dances of other countries > [noun] > Africa high life1942 kwela1958 Isukuti1972 society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > dance music > [noun] > others galliard1545 passamezzo1568 pavane1591 passy-measure1597 rant1656 passacaglia1659 passacaille1667 chaconne1685 rigadoon1690 passepied1696 rigaudon1708 bourrée1776 minuet de la cour1783 quadrille1802 treble1805 pigeon wing1807 polka1825 redowa1843 polka time1844 écossaise1863 verbunkos1880 drag1901 foxtrot1915 burru1929 rumba1931 palais glide1936 Lambeth Walk1937 jitterbug1939 high life1942 Zydeco1949 hand jive1958 hand jiving1958 hokey-cokey1966 twist1966 chicken scratch1972 smoocher1976 funana1981 New Beat1988 trance dance1988 1942 Punch 21 Jan. 60/2 A boll-dance involves a lorry-load of hired bandsmen from the capital with saxophones... The youngmen [sic] and young ladies perform the fox-trot, the waltz and the high-life. 1951 Afr. Affairs 50 99 The bulk is made up of agitators..complete with their symbols, the flags, the hats, the highlife music. 1955 Times 23 Aug. 10/6 ‘High lifes’, marches, songs in the vernacular of dubious propriety. 1959 Guardian 22 Dec. 5/2 Man, I've got a..West African band... They play high life. 1986 B. Okri Incidents at Shrine (1987) 70 When a highlife record came on he got up and dragged her to the dancefloor. 1996 Esquire Jan. 21/1 ‘The Lord's Prayer’ by the Ghanaian high-life band Super Sweet Talks. 2010 K. Welsh Afr. Dance (ed. 2) 57 Like all African popular dance, highlife emphasizes syncretism. B. adj. 1. a. Of high social status; living an extravagant or luxurious lifestyle. Cf. high-lifed adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > luxury or luxurious living > [adjective] delicatea1393 deliciousa1393 voluptuous?a1475 pampereda1529 volupteousa1535 wealy1545 lascivious1589 smoothed1600 luxurious1606 luxuriose1727 high life1733 Vie Parisienne1890 decadent1967 1733 E. Phillips Stage-mutineers i. 5 I love a high Life Character, Mr. Prompter, so well, that I positively will not play this. 1779 R. Graves Columella II. xxxii. 237 Mrs. Abigail (for such this high-life lady really was) said positively she could not admit him into the coach. 1823 Mechanic's Mag. 15 Nov. 188/1 It has become fashionable with some of the high-life men to patronise that abominable and detestable practice of prize fighting. 1858 Ballou's Dollar Monthly Mag. July 17/1 High life people are the same all the world over—most insipid and uniform creatures. 1935 Archit. Rev. 77 64/2 He was busy building for ‘high-life’ America. 1954 M. Sandoz Buffalo Hunters xi. 257 He..drank like the high-life characters he had seen in New York. 2011 O. Guillen in R. Morrissey Ozzie's School of Managem. vii. 176 I don't hang around with the high-life people. b. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the high life (sense A. 2); (of a place) frequented by upper class or wealthy people. ΚΠ a1774 O. Goldsmith Poet. Wks. (1799) 104 No high-life scenes, no sentiment:—the creature Still stoops among the low. 1815 W. Combe Eng. Dance of Death I. 274 With all those hopes, within her heart, That High-life fantasies impart. 1832 Atkinson's Casket Aug. 341 Their intercourse with the least prepossessing portion of society, is set down as ‘high life associations’. 1857 A. Mathews Tea-table Talk I. 50 They furnished..a high-life illustration of Derby and Joan. 1939 Life 24 July 14/2 Fascinations, brilliance, high-life customs, bewildering surroundings. 1955 ‘E. C. R. Lorac’ Ask Policeman iii. 28 Perhaps wealthy Australians were sent back to high-life schools in England in her day. 1978 J. Bayley Ess. Hardy i. 22 It is the kind of high-life tale which Hardy might have exchanged with a rural audience appreciating it without any notion of morbidity. 2002 Village Voice (N.Y.) 8 Jan. 57/3 All the juicy drama of low-life bars, high-life clubs, [etc.]. 2. U.S. = high-lifed adj. 2 Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > lively, vivacious, or animated jollyc1325 lightsomea1382 kedgec1440 fledge?1461 crank1499 frisky?a1500 sprightya1522 frisk1528 sprightful1550 quick-spirited1552 cranking1567 lively1567 quick-sprighted1579 aleger1590 bright-eyed1590 firking1594 sprightly1594 spirituous1601 great-stomached1607 spirity1615 spiritous1628 lifesomec1635 vivacious1645 rattlingc1650 quick-set1653 airy1654 animated1660 sparklinga1704 bob1721 vivace1721 animate1801 high-lifed1859 sassy1859 chippy1865 sparky1883 high-keyed1893 high life1903 peppy1914 pepful1915 jazzy1917 upbeat1947 zappy1969 sparkly1979 1903 A. D. McFaul Ike Glidden in Maine ix. 70 Ike told him..to always drive on the bit, because the colt was a high-life fellow. 1913 J. London Valley of Moon iii. xxi Spanish broke, so don't check her quick... She's high-life, you know. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1225
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