word | live |
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definition | verb If someone lives in a particular place or with a particular person, their home is in that place or with that person. She has lived here for 10 years. She always said I ought to live alone. Where do you live? He still lives with his parents. If you say that someone lives in particular circumstances or that they live a particular kind of life, you mean that they are in those circumstances or that they have that kind of life. We lived quite grandly. We live in an age of rapid technological change. We can start living a normal life again now. ...the local support group for people living with HIV and AIDS. If you say that someone lives for a particular thing, you mean that it is the most important thing in their life. He lived for his work. To live means to be alive. If someone lives to a particular age, they stay alive until they are that age. He's got a terrible disease and will not live long. A perennial is a plant that lives indefinitely. He lived to be 103. My father died nigh on ten years ago, but he lived to see his first grandson. Matilda was born in northern Italy in 1046 and apparently lived to a ripe old age. The blue whale is the largest living thing on the planet. Ian was her only living relative. If people live by doing a particular activity, they get the money, food, or clothing they need by doing that activity. ...the last indigenous people to live by hunting. These crimes were committed largely by professional criminals who lived by crime. If you live by a particular rule, belief, or ideal, you behave in the way in which it says you should behave. They live by the principle that we are here to add what we can to life. If a person or occasion lives in someone's mind or in history, they are remembered for a long time. The memory of that will live with me for many years to come. His name will live in history as one of the greatest bowlers of all time. Lenin lives on in the minds and hearts of millions of people. |
inflections | liveslivinglived |
cefr-level | A1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:a1
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