live
/lɪv/
Also an adjective
Meaning
To maintain one's permanent home in a specified place.
They decided to live in a quiet neighborhood outside the city center.
To remain alive or sustain biological existence.
Tortoises can live for well over a century under the right conditions.
To spend one's life in a particular manner or state.
He wanted to live simply without accumulating unnecessary possessions.
Collocations
- live abroad
- live alone
- live together
- live on savings
- live through a crisis
- live to see
Antonyms
Idioms
live and let live
accept other people's choices and lifestyles without interference
I disagree with his lifestyle, but my philosophy has always been live and let live.
live down
overcome the shame of a past mistake
He worried he would never live down the embarrassing speech.