to live
- verb
- /lɪv/
- And don't we all want to live in a better world?
- live life
- learn to live
- live independently
I know it's true, and I try to live in that knowledge.
- I know it's true, and I try to live in that knowledge.
- What do they, what rules do they live by in their lives?
- And what's important is to live life to the fullest.
- We really do live in an unfair world.
- And that's what we all live for that balance.
- This was a place where you could go and live a fairly free life.
- Of course it's worth it if you didn't live life that way.
- Shouldn't you have to live in laughter?
- It's what I what I lived, how I was raised.
Examples
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I just want to live with her.
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To truly be happy, you need to live by your own values and beliefs.
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What do they, what rules do they live by in their lives?
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But but you want to live on your terms.
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It's about the way we choose to live our lives.
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Give yourself the freedom to live a meaningful life.
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I know it's true, and I try to live in that knowledge.
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And what's important is to live life to the fullest.
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Teenagers here are treated as adults, marrying young and living much as their ancestors did.
Academic text (2011) -
She would be able to live her life as she chooses.
Synonyms
To feel something while it happens to you
Manage to live on very little money
To survive by using a certain food or money
Manage to live with very little food or money
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
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Etymology
Live comes from an old English word life meaning 'life'. To live a certain way or to live on money is to have a particular 'life' or means of support, so the word links what you do to keep life going.