Definitions
the financial means whereby one lives
Word origin
From Middle English liflode, from Old English līflād (“course of life, conduct”), from līf (“life”) + lād (“course, journey”), later altered under the influence of lively, -hood. Compare life, lode.
Used in a sentence
“an independent livelihood; to make / earn / gain / win a good livelihood by the sweat of one's brow”
“But now when Philtra ſaw my lands decay, And former liuelod fayle, ſhe left me quight[…].”
“And now he’s dead, and left her a widow, and she is staying here; and we are racking our brains to find out some way of helping her to a livelihood without parting her from her child.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Means of support”10 letters
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