Live definition
Living on rice and fish; lives on a small inheritance.
Live one's beliefs.
Those who truly live.
Lived a nightmare.
A live crowd at the parade; a live party.
Live animals.
A live organization, a live color.
Lived through a bad accident.
Live ammunition.
Men's good deeds live after them.
An event that lives on in our minds.
An example of live is a person who's heart is beating and brain is functioning.
An example of live is a deer that was hit by a car, but is still walking and breathing.
An example of live is where a person sleeps and calls home.
An example of live is a person who spends their life being cautious.
Live cables lying dangerously on the ground.
Live ore.
Live copy.
A live ball.
A live television program.
Live entertainment; a live audience.
The landing on the moon was telecast live.
He really knows how to live.
To live on fruits and nuts.
To live happily.
To live by a strict moral code.
To live on a pension.
To live one's faith.
To live a useful life.
A live issue.
A live shell.
A live wire.
Live rocks.
A live rubber ball.
A live ball.
A live spark.
A live volcano.
A live broadcast.
Recorded live at a nightclub.
You'll just have to live with it!
I can't live in a world without you.
To live an idle or a useful life.
No ship could live in such a storm.
He is a live example of the consequences of excessive drinking.
The live spindle of a lathe.
A live ball.
This nightclub has a live band on weekends.
The air force practices dropping live bombs on the uninhabited island.
Use caution when working near live wires.
A live coal; live embers.
He'll be appearing live at the auditorium.
An example of live is going to a concert.
Lives on a farm.
Lived frugally.
A live birth; the live weight of an animal before being slaughtered.
A live topic; still a live option.
Live coals.
Live yogurt cultures; a live measles vaccine.
- To engage in festive pleasures or extravagances.
- To enjoy the best of everything; live in comfort or luxury.
- To live or act in accordance with:Lived up to their parents' ideals.
- To prove equal to:A new technology that did not live up to our expectations.
- To carry out; fulfill:Lived up to her end of the bargain.
- to do as one wishes and let other people do the same; be tolerant
- to succeed in making others forget the memory or shame of (one's fault, misdeed, etc.)
- to live in luxury
- to live at the place where one is in domestic service
- to have a joyous or merry time
- to indulge in pleasures, extravagances, etc. that one usually forgoes
- to live until the end of; last through
- to sleep away from the place where one is in domestic service
- to dwell with each other; specif., to cohabit
- to live or act in accordance with (certain ideals, promises, expectations, etc.)
- to live in luxury
- to lead a virtuous life
- to dwell with; be a lodger at the home of
- to cohabit with
- to tolerate; bear; endure
- in a sensitive or vulnerable area
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of live
- Middle English liven from Old English libban, lifian leip- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Short for alive
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English liven, from Old English libban, lifian (“to live"), from Proto-Germanic *libjanÄ…, from Proto-Indo-European *leip- (“leave, cling, linger"). Cognate with West Frisian libje, Old Saxon libbian (German Low German lÄ™ven (“to live")), Dutch leven, Old High German lebÄ“n (German leben), Old Norse lifa (Swedish leva), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (liban).
From Wiktionary
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