lifestylern.
/ˈlʌɪfˌstʌɪlə/, U.S. /ˈlaɪfˌstaɪlər/ 1. A person who adopts a particular lifestyle, esp. an unconventional one. Frequently with preceding word specifying the type of lifestyle adopted.
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1970 Los Angeles Times 9 Aug. (Calendar section) 8/2 (advt.) If you're a natural born California Life Styler..chances are you're a bit bored with..your neighbors.
1982 N. Radin in M. E. Lamb Nontraditional Families vii. 174 ‘Alternative life-stylers’ viewed their early childhood as more unhappy than the..traditional parents.
1999 ‘Eurydice’ Satyricon USA 52 Outsiders are destroying S/M [= sadomasochism]... We lifestylers resent the New Age glitz and all the safe words and negotiations.
2001 Times 27 June ii. 27/5 Vince, a 36-year-old ‘vampire lifestyler’,..has licked a pinprick's worth from people a few times over the years, as a gesture of friendship more than anything else.
2. Australian and New Zealand. A person, esp. one from an urban area, who adopts a rural lifestyle and engages in small-scale agriculture.
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1988 Mercury (Hobart) 19 Nov. 19/1 HFP has been vilified by..conservationists, sectional interests among timber workers and ‘lifestylers’ in the Huon.
1996 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 12 Jan. 5 Few lifestylers make a good living from their land—most have other income.
2004 D. K. Müller et al. in C. M. Hall & D. K. Müller Tourism, Mobility & Second Homes ii. 23 In the Nelson area..the price of suitable land for wine growing is inflated by high demand from ‘lifestylers’ migrating from urban centres.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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