Usually means: Unique event, never repeated again.
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We found 9 dictionaries that define the word once in a lifetime:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. once in a lifetime: Merriam-Webster
  2. once-in-a-lifetime, once in a lifetime: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. once-in-a-lifetime: Wiktionary
  4. once-in-a-lifetime: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  5. Once In A Lifetime, Once in a Lifetime (Blutengel album), Once in a Lifetime (Gregorian song), Once in a Lifetime (Keith Urban song), Once in a Lifetime (Runrig album), Once in a Lifetime (Talking Heads album), Once in a Lifetime (Talking Heads song), Once in a Lifetime (play), Once in a Lifetime: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. once-in-a-lifetime: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. once in a lifetime: Idioms

Definitions from Wikipedia (Once in a Lifetime)

noun:  "Once in a Lifetime" is a song by the American new wave band Talking Heads, produced and cowritten by Brian Eno.
noun:  a three-CD box set by American post-punk/new wave band Talking Heads, released in the United States by Sire, Warner Bros, and Rhino in 2003.
noun:  "Once in a Lifetime" is a song co-written and recorded by Australian country music artist Keith Urban.
noun:  Livet är en schlager (Life is a Schlager, also known as Once in a Lifetime or Hånden på hjertet in Danish) is a Swedish film released in 2000, written by Jonas Gardell and directed by his usual directing partner Susanne Bier.
noun:  a live album by Scottish Celtic rock band Runrig.
noun:  Once In A Lifetime was David Meece's eleventh album.
noun:  a play by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, the first of eight on which they collaborated in the 1930s.
noun:  (also known as Danielle Steel's Once in a Lifetime) a 1994 American made-for-television romantic drama film directed by Michael Miller.
noun:  a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film based on Once in a Lifetime by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.
noun:  a live album from German futurepop band Blutengel.
noun:  (original title: Les Héritiers) a 2014 French drama film directed by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar.
noun:  a 1925 American silent comedy drama film directed by Duke Worne and starring Ashton Dearholt, Theodore Lorch and Les Bates.
noun:  a studio album by Slim Whitman, released in 1961 on Imperial Records.


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