to live
- verb
- /lɪv/
- They live by themselves in the woods.
- people live
- places to live
- families live
How far from where you live was his body found?
- How far from where you live was his body found?
- Oh yeah, He's found out where I lived, right?
- And his son Abdullah Rahman lived here too, right?
- Maybe about where you would live or places you would go.
- I mean, the places that we live are like built for cars.
- They're in America because they did not want to live where they come from.
- We're not for my friends that live in snowy areas.
- And now the rich people live here, things like that.
- And you can see where we live based on that story alone.
- My friends, this world we live in is full.
- There is no how we don't live near the farm.
- Poor people out of four live in rural areas.
Examples
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I only live three blocks from there.
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Where are you living now?
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How far from where you live was his body found?
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What kind of society do we live in, Prime Minister?
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I mean, the places that we live are like built for cars.
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This is where we live.
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Eleanor, please state your name, where you live, and your occupation.
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The best part of Tucson, where I live, is the result of that indeterminacy.
Academic text (2011) -
In Afghanistan, many people, especially those in rural areas, live according to centuries-old traditions and beliefs.
Academic text (2011) -
I have always wanted to live near the ocean.
Synonyms
To live in a particular place
To live in a place or have a home there
To live in a place like a house or area
To live in a place such as a house or town
To live in a place
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
Lead a life full of risk and excitement by doing dangerous things
- Informal
To be very excited about something and always make it a main part of life
- NSFW
A couple who live together and have sex without being married, often seen as wrong by some people
To stay constantly in someone's thoughts and annoy them
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
Enjoy yourself in a lively, often expensive way at parties or restaurants
Compounds
A medium-sized evergreen oak tree with leathery spiny-edged leaves that grows in dry canyons in southwestern US and northwestern Mexico
- Specialized
An evergreen oak tree with small, thick, spiny dark green leaves that grows on the coast of California
- Specialized
A short bushy evergreen tree that grows along the west coast of North America with small thick spiny leaves
- Australian
A small bush from the tropics whose leaves fold when touched and that has sharp thorns
A small hardy plant with thick leaves that forms low clusters and small purple and white flowers
- Specialized
An evergreen tree with thick leaves that grows in dry hills of western North America
- Specialized
A medicine taken by mouth that contains three weakened live polio viruses to protect against polio
An evergreen tree from the southern United States with wide, spreading branches and very hard wood
How Permanent
Surface Forms
Etymology
Live comes from an old English word life meaning 'life'. To live in a place is to have your 'life' there, so the verb also means to make your home or to inhabit a location.