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live

Pronunciation: /ˈlɪv/

The English word “live” has 20 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To be alive; to have life.
  2. To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
  3. (of an object) to have its proper place; to normally be stored.
  4. To survive; to persevere; to continue.
  5. To endure in memory; to escape oblivion.
  6. To cope.
  7. To pass life in a specified manner.
  8. To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.
  9. To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life.
  10. To live as; to live being.
  11. To outlast danger; (of a ship or boat) to float.
  12. To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself; to feed; to subsist.
  13. To make the most of life; to experience a full, rich life.
  14. To spend a great deal of time in a particular place.

adjective

  1. Having life; that is alive.
  2. Being in existence; actual.
  3. Having active properties; being energized.
  4. Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc.
  5. Of an object or value: that may potentially be used in the future execution of a program.
  6. Taken from a living animal.

Etymology

From Middle English lefe, lifen, libbe, libben, live, luvien, lyven, from Old English libban, lifian (“to live; be alive”), from Proto-West Germanic *libbjan, from Proto-Germanic *libjaną (“to live”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick”). Cognates Cognate with Yola live (“to live”), North Frisian laawe, lawe, lewe, lewi, lewwe, lääwe (“to live”), Saterland Frisian lieuwje, líeuwje (“to…

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