Definition of "lifeway" [lifeway]

• A customary manner of living; a way of life. (noun)
• A custom, practice, or art: the traditional lifeways of a tribal society. (noun)

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• "That 'lifeway' supplied our youth with a critique of Jamaican (and world) society and gave them some firm moral and personal orientations."
• "I don't believe as they do but I have great respect for their choice of lifeway."
• "Taoism is the indigenous lifeway of ancient China, a philosophy based on bringing people into accord with the Tao, or Way, that creates and sustains all form from within."