Live Definition
- make-ends-meet
- provide for one's needs
- earn money
- acquire a livelihood
- continue
- remain
- support oneself
- earn-a-living
- maintain oneself
- get ahead
- feed
- subsist
- love
- experience
- savor
Of an event, as it happens; in real time; direct.
- 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 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.)
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Live
- live it up
- live off
- live up to
- live and let live
- live something down
- live high
- live in
- live it up
- live out
- live together
- live up to
- live well
- live with
- where one lives
Origin of Live
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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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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
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See alive
From Wiktionary
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