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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : lahyvz
Phonetic Transcription : laɪvz



Definition of lives

Origin :
  • 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.
  • noun animation, spirit
  • noun existence, duration
  • noun being
  • noun history, biography
  • noun person's experiences
  • verb exist
  • verb inhabit a dwelling
  • verb enjoy being alive
  • verb make money to support living
Example sentences :
  • But unless he did something a hundred lives perhaps might be lost.
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • To the end of the lives of the spectators, it was a tale of wonder.
  • Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • Just think of the Hippopotamus, the horse or "hippos" that lives in the rivers.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
  • Strange, by what slender threads our lives are knitted to each other!
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Lanning, if I had you at my back I could laugh at the law the rest of our lives!
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • Americans are called to enact this promise in our lives and in our laws.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • In our own lives, let each of us ask—not just what will government do for me, but what can I do for myself?
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • For all of us are on that same journey of our lives, and our journey, too, will come to an end.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • A painter friend who lives by the sea has asked me to stay with him awhile.
  • Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
  • It is because the Caucasian believes in Him that he lives in fear and dies in fear.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

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