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1. Be an inhabitant of; spend most of one's life in
   "People lived in Africa millions of years ago";
   - populate, dwell, inhabit
    
2. Lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style
   "we had to live frugally after the war"
    
3. Continue to live and avoid dying
   "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "One crash victim died, the other lived"; "These superstitions live on in the backwaters of America";
   - survive, last, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out
    
4. Support oneself, esp. at a minimal level
   "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?";
   - exist, survive, subsist
    
5. Have life, be alive
   "My grandfather lived until the end of war";
   - be
    
6. Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
   "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces";
   - know, experience
    
7. Pursue a positive and satisfying existence
   "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live"

1. Actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing
   "a live television program"; "brought to you live from Lincoln Center"; "live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience";
   - unrecorded
    
2. Highly reverberant
   "a live concert hall"
    
3. Charged with an explosive
   "live ammunition"; "a live bomb"
    
4. Elastic; rebounds readily
   "clean live hair";
   - bouncy, lively, resilient, springy
    
5. Abounding with life and energy
   "the club members are a really live bunch"
    
6. (printing) in current use or ready for use
   "live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread"
    
7. Of current relevance
   "a live issue"; "still a live option"
    
8. (electricity) charged or energized with electricity
   "a live wire";
   - hot [informal]
    
9. Capable of erupting
   "a live volcano";
   - alive
    
10. Exerting force or containing energy
    "live coals"; "tossed a live cigarette out the window"; "got a shock from a live wire"; "live ore is unmined ore"; "a live bomb"; "a live ball is one in play"
     
11. Possessing life
    "a live canary";
    - alive

1. Not recorded
   "the opera was broadcast live"

Derived forms: liver, livest, living, lived

See also: active, aliveness, animate, animation, charged, current, elastic, life, liveborn, lively, living, loaded, reverberant, unfilmed, untaped, viable, vital, vitality

Type of: be, experience, go through, see

Antonym: dead

Encyclopedia: Live, Love, Life