Synonyms:
lifelong, womb-to-tomb
Meaning: continuing through life; "a lifelong friend"; "from lifelong habit"; "his lifelong study of Greek art"
Usage examples
One of these young men was myself, and the other was my lifelong friend and chum, Carl Benda, who saved his country by solving a tremendously difficult scientific puzzle in a simple way, by sheer reasoning power, and without apparatus.