Life list

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A cumulative list of all the bird species a birder has ever sighted and identified.

    "I added twenty species for the year, fourteen of which I couldn't hope to see anywhere else but Mike forked out a lot of money to come a long way with not a single addition to his life list to show for it."

  2. 2
    A wishlist of things to accomplish during one's lifetime.

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aspiration listbucket listdream listlife goalslifelistspecies list

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"I added twenty species for the year, fourteen of which I couldn't hope to see anywhere else but Mike forked out a lot of money to come a long way with not a single addition to his life list to show for it."

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