my pesonal fav... a : the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body
As I said, you can't argue with Merriam-Webster.
But why waste your time thinking of what the meaning is, when you can have fun at the same time?
Why have fun if you don't know why you're having it in the first place? It's better to know, even if the answer is traumatically horrible (or horribly traumatic).
Birth, produce other humans (children), die.
Death is part of the meaning of life? It's part of the reason why we exist? To die?
My personal opinion, is that the meaning of life is so utterly complicated, that it cannot be solved with a mere equation. everything in life, absolutely everything, crammed into a formula of science and maths, it just doesn't work for me. what's even worse, is that someone threw in a supposed answer with just a number, how is that physically possible?
(my form teacher said that the meaning of life is 47, as every question in life, the answer is 47, you just have to mould it somehow, and I replied, so if that's correct, can I answer every single of my exam questions with 47? he was so stumped!)
So, we, humans, were born, to talk to animals and other people to convert them to a religion, which restricts people from their own beliefs? No offense meant, but that isn't the meaning of life, for god can easily show himself if he would excist... That, is why I turned partially into a buddha... Mainly, because Buddism is an atheistic religion, and because THE Buddha, said the only wise thing: He didn't want people to follow his believes, but to follow their own. Believing in god isn't bad, but I think you should either keep your ideas and thoughts to yourself, or face critisism or the ideas and thoughts of another.
Now on topic:
There's no real meaning of life, except survival. We are here, but without a goal besides surviving. But the existance in general is scary and weird. Everything came and will return to nothing. Either the big bang or God came from nothingness, and probally will return to that in infinite years (well, not really infinite, but still far away).
No offense meant in any way by sharing my thoughts here, do know that. I'm sorry if I did it anyway...
