verb / adjective

live

LIV/lɪv/

To continue one's existence in the world.

A secure home helps its resident live safely.

An adult settles into a small home doorway with a house key and one moving box, choosing the have-ones-home sense of live; no address or words.

Etymology

liveOld Englishto be alive, pass one's life

Old English lifian covered both being alive and passing one's life in a particular way. The dwelling sense focuses that continuing life on a particular place: where someone makes a home.

In context

Real Stories7:42

live a calmer life far from the strip so a gated community is the perfect option at McDonald Highlands one of the largest and most luxurious residential neighborhoods in the city round-the-clock security is the number

Inside a Super Rich Gated Community (Extreme Wealth Documentary) | Real Stories

More examples

These plants can live for weeks without much water.
My grandparents live in a small town near the coast.
The rescue team finds a live bird beneath the rubble.

Forms

live · lives · lived · living

life noun — The state of being alive.

Similar words

survive: Emphasizes staying alive despite danger, hardship, or difficult conditions.
exist: Means to be present or real, not necessarily alive.
alive: Usually follows a verb, while live comes before a noun.