live

Meaning

1. To be alive; to have life.
2. To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
3. (informal) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
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. (obsolete) To live as; to live being.
11. To outlast danger; to float (said of a ship, boat, etc).
12. To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself; to feed; to subsist.
13. (informal) To make the most of life; to experience a full, rich life.

dwell

alive

be alive

support oneself

remain alive

earn one’s livelihood

have life

be located

be lodged

be sitting

living being

poignant

lead a life

ישר

be in existence

be well

dwell in

eke out a living

frank

live long

live transmission

reside in

stay alive

stop at

continue to live

unmediated

wander around

live one’s life

sleep

😴

uncurved

spend one’s life

real stuff

unconstipated

uncurving

unexacting

under tension

earn for living

honest-to-god

keep alive

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lɪv/

From Middle English lyven, libben, from Old English lifian, libban (“to live; be alive”), from Proto-West Germanic *libbjan, from Proto-Germanic *libjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, cling, linger”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian líeuwje (“to live”), West Frisian libje (“to live”), Dutch leven (“to live”), German Low German leven, lęven (“to live”), German leben (“to live”), Swedish leva (“to live”), Icelandic lifa (“to live”), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (liban, “to live”).