Origin of lived
verb (used without object), lived [livd] /lɪvd/, liv·ing.
verb (used with object), lived [livd] /lɪvd/, liv·ing.
Origin of live1
Related Words for livedalive, hot, working, lively, prevalent, last, lead, move, maintain, remain, continue, endure, pass, survive, reside, locate, settle, crash, occupy, flourish
Examples from the Web for lived
Contemporary Examples of lived
Most coup members “lived in the diaspora in the United States and Germany,” Faal said.The Shadowy U.S. Veteran Who Tried to Overthrow a Country
January 6, 2015
We are not told that Cooper had been able to vote without hindrance when she lived in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.Dr. King Goes to Hollywood: The Flawed History of ‘Selma’
January 2, 2015
Could he have won the White House in 1992, and if he had, would he have lived up to his ideals?President Cuomo Would’ve Been a Lion
January 2, 2015
That is the difference between the protections embedded in our Bill of Rights and the lived lives of our citizenry.What Would Happen if I Got in White Cop’s Face?
December 30, 2014
Like Romeo and Juliet, we lived in different worlds — until now.Biking With the Bard
December 28, 2014
Historical Examples of lived
Paralus ever lived in affectionate communion with the birds and the flowers.Philothea
Lydia Maria Child
They told the story of a queen who had lived to be eighty-two years old.
But when the Jews entered Palestine, the Canaanites lived in towns and villages.
Just across the way, there lived a farmer who had a young daughter.
For many years they lived amidst the trackless hills of the desert.
verb (mainly intr)
Word Origin for live
- recorded in concert
- recorded in one studio take, without overdubs or splicing
- (of copy) not yet having been set into type
- (of type that has been set) still in use
Word Origin for live
Old English lifian (Anglian), libban (West Saxon) "to be, to live, have life; to experience," also "to supply oneself with food, to pass life (in some condition)," from Proto-Germanic *liben (cf. Old Norse lifa "to live, remain," Old Frisian libba, German leben, Gothic liban "to live"), from PIE root *leip- "to remain, continue" (cf. Greek liparein "to persist, persevere;" see leave). Meaning "to make a residence, dwell" is from c.1200. Related: Lived; living.
According to the Dutch Prouerbe ... Leuen ende laetan leuen, To liue and to let others liue. [Malynes, 1622]
To live it up "live gaily and extravagantly" is from 1903. To live up to "act in accordance with" is 1690s, from earlier live up "live on a high (moral or mental) level" (1680s). To live (something) down "outwear (some slander or embarrassment)" is from 1842. To live with "cohabit as husband and wife" is attested from 1749; sense of "to put up with" is attested from 1937. Expression live and learn is attested from c.1620.
1540s, "having life," later (1610s) "burning, glowing," a shortening of alive (q.v.). Sense of "containing unspent energy or power" (live ammunition, etc.) is from 1799. Meaning "in-person" (of performance) is first attested 1934. Live wire is attested from 1890; figurative sense of "active person" is from 1903.
In addition to the idioms beginning with live
- live and learn
- live and let live
- live by one's wits
- live dangerously
- live down
- live for the moment
- live from day to day
- live from hand to mouth
- live happily ever after
- live high off the hog
- live in
- live in each other's pockets
- live in sin
- live it up
- live like a king
- live on
- live on borrowed time
- live on the edge
- live out
- live through
- live together
- live up to
- live wire
- live with
- alive (live) and kicking
- as I live and breathe
- close to home (where one lives)
- (live from) day to day
- fat of the land, live off the
- high off the hog, live
- in one's pocket (live in each other's pockets)
- learn to live with
- people who live in glass houses