live in

live in verb: to reside on the premises of one's employer (used especially of domestic staff such as nannies, cooks, maids, etc.).

Verb

live in (third-person singular simple present lives in, present participle living in, simple past and past participle lived in)

(intransitive) To reside on the premises of one's employer (used especially of domestic staff such as nannies, cooks, maids, etc.)
(literal) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see live, in.
- In January 2005, a 27-year-old woman living in Fongshan City, Kaohsiung County, in southern Taiwan as admitted to Kaohsiung Medicial University Hospital with a 4-day history of intermittent fever (37.8°C-38.0°C), chills, headache, and fatigue.2008, Kun-Hsien Tsai, Hsiu-Ying Lu, Jih-Jin Tsai, Sheng-Kai Yu, Jyh-Hsiung Huang, Pei-Yun Shu, “Human Case of Rickettsia felis Infection, Taiwan”, in Emerging Infectious Diseases, volume 14, number...

third-person singular present	lives in
present participle	living in
past participle	lived in
past	lived in

What does live in mean?: Live in means to reside on the premises of one's employer (used especially of domestic staff such as nannies, cooks, maids, etc.).
What is live in in Hindi?: Live in in Hindi is बसना (basnā). See Live in meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is live in?: Live in is a verb.
What is the past tense of live in?: The past tense of live in is lived in.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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