Live

Word LIVE
Character 4
Hyphenation live
Pronunciations /lɪv/

Definitions and meanings of "Live"

What do we mean by live?

Having life; alive: synonym: living. adjective

Of, related to, or occurring during the life of one that is living. adjective

Of current interest or relevance. adjective

Full of life, excitement, or activity; lively. adjective

Glowing; burning. adjective

Not yet exploded but capable of being fired. adjective

Carrying an electric current or energized with electricity. adjective

Not mined or quarried; in the natural state. adjective

Broadcast while actually being performed; not taped, filmed, or recorded. adjective

Involving performers or spectators who are physically present. adjective

Of, relating to, or containing living bacteria or active viruses, sometimes in an attenuated form. adjective

Not yet set into type. adjective

In play. adjective

At, during, or from the time of actual occurrence or performance. adverb

To be alive; exist. intransitive verb

To continue to be alive. intransitive verb

To support oneself; subsist. intransitive verb

To reside; dwell. intransitive verb

To conduct one's life in a particular manner. intransitive verb

To be alive; to have life.

To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.

To survive; to persevere; to continue.

To cope.

To pass life in a specified manner.

To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.

To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life.

To outlast danger; to float (said of a ship, boat, etc).

(followed by "on" or "upon") To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself; to feed; to subsist.

To make the most of life; to experience a full, rich life.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Live

The word "live" in example sentences

Their names will forever live on the lips of the people -- Their names will, on the lips of the people, forever live_. ❋ Brainerd Kellogg (N/A)

She sits _gracefully_; They live _happily_ and _contentedly_; we employ the verbs _sleeps, sits_, and _live_, in an active sense. ❋ Samuel Kirkham (N/A)

The more we learn about our own body, that wonderful and beautiful house in which we live, the more we shall see, in what God thus formed from the dust of the ground, to call forth our admiration; but the body of the first man, although fashioned with such perfection in all its parts, did not _live_ until God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. ❋ Caroline Pridham (N/A)

We may say, for example, _I live, I am living_, or _I do live_. ❋ Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1900)

If I can live and save money at it, you ought to be smart enough to _live_. ❋ Gene Stratton-Porter (1893)

Those who live in cities, and who are always realizing self, and thinking how they think, and are while awake given up to introverting vanity, never _live_ in song. ❋ Charles Godfrey Leland (1863)

Men live by the primal energies of love, faith, imagination; and happily it is not given to every one to _live_, in the pecuniary sense, by the artistic utilisation and sale of these. ❋ Alexander Smith (1848)

The first passage refers to a _partial_ resurrection, inasmuch as it makes mention of those only who shall hear the voice of the Son of {37} God, and hearing shall live; whereas the other passage asserts that _all_ who are in sepulchres (_mnêmeiois_) shall hear his voice, and divides these into two classes -- those that have done good, who rise to _live_ ❋ James Challis (1842)

If I live, sir, she will have to become the wife of Rivers; and, though I love her as my own -- as I have never loved my own -- yet she must abide the sacrifice from which, _while I live_, there is no escape. ❋ William Gilmore Simms (1838)

She died; the censors heard the tale; and scoffed at the teller of it! and that Cornelius yet sits in the senate; those censors who approved his guilt yet live — I say _live_! ❋ Henry William Herbert (1832)

But true faith, the faith that saves the soul, the faith by which the just shall live, is _a loving acceptance of the Word of God; every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God; for by this doth man live_. ❋ John Kline (1830)

It is laudable in a man to wish to live by his labours; but he should write so as he may _live_ by them, not so as he may be knocked on the head. ❋ James Boswell (1767)

As far as I’m concerned, gays should be allowed to enjoy their lives undisturbed by the rest of us..live and let live, etc. ❋ Unknown (2006)

For _those who live to please, must please to live_. " ❋ Unknown (N/A)

At such moments we want to live as well, and we will live_! " ❋ Vladim��r Nosek (1929)

But I swear that she shall never marry him while I live, "he ended in a kind of shout and the domed and painted ceiling echoed back his words --" _while I live_ "after which the room was silent, save for the heavy thumping of his heart. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

"You _shall_ live in palace," he roared, -- "you _shall _live in palace! ❋ Anna Harriette Leonowens (1874)

"I do not ask you to _try_ to live, but to _live_. ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)

I must follow so illustrious an example and confess, _The Greek is lent_.] "_Who knows if to live is not to die, and dying but to live_." ❋ Susan Warner (1852)

Leaders Without a Title live and breathe their Vital Few. ❋ Robin Sharma (2010)

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