lived
/lɪvd/
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adjective/laɪvd/
lived is the simple past and past participle of live.
Meaning of live
Verb
live (third-person singular simple present lives, present participle living, simple past and past participle lived)
- To be alive; to have life.
- He's not expected to live for more than a few months.
- To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
- I live at 2a Acacia Avenue. At that time I'd been living in a camper for about six months.
- Synonyms:
- range
- (of an object) to have its proper place; to normally be stored.
- I washed your gravy boat. Where does it live?
- To survive; to persevere; to continue.
- When Lazarus left his charnel-cave,
And home to Mary’s house return’d, […]
‘Where wert thou, brother, those four days?’
There lives no record of reply,
Which telling what it is to die
Had surely added praise to praise.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 50
- Synonyms:
- go on
- When Lazarus left his charnel-cave,
- To endure in memory; to escape oblivion.
- Her memory lives in that song.
- To cope.
- You'll just have to live with it! I can't live in a world without you.
Adjective
lived (not comparable)
- Having a specified duration of life.
- a short-lived recycling scheme
Words formed from lived
Phrases with lived
- lived in
- lived on
- lived up
- lived for
- lived off
- lived out
- lived down
- lived with
- lived a lie
- lived it up
- lived large
- lived rough
71 more phrasesFewer phrases
- lived tally
- lived times
- lived in sin
- lived down to
- lived in hope
- lived through
- lived a little
- lived together
- lived the dream
- lived to regret
- lived and learnt
- die how one lived
- lived and died by
- lived and learned
- lived dangerously
- lived experiences
- lived in the past
- lived on the edge
- lived one's truth
- you haven't lived
- die like one lived
- died how one lived
- dies how one lived
- lived and breathed
- lived and let live
- lived under a rock
- lived with oneself
- died like one lived
- dies like one lived
- dying how one lived
- lived in the moment
- dying like one lived
- got it how one lived
- lived one's own life
- lived over the brush
- lived within oneself
- die the way one lived
- lived off the country
- lived one's best life
- die just how one lived
- died the way one lived
- dies the way one lived
- lived in the shadow of
- lived to tell the tale
- die just like one lived
- died just how one lived
- dies just how one lived
- dying the way one lived
- got it how one lived it
- gotten it how one lived
- died just like one lived
- dies just like one lived
- dying just how one lived
- lived beyond one's means
- dying just like one lived
- die just the way one lived
- gotten it how one lived it
- lived paycheck to paycheck
- lived to fight another day
- died just the way one lived
- dies just the way one lived
- dying just the way one lived
- lived paycheque to paycheque
- lived in each other's pockets
- lived with one's wife's family
- lived at Her Majesty's pleasure
- lived from paycheck to paycheck
- lived rent free in someone's head
- lived rent free in someone's mind
- lived rent-free in someone's head
- lived rent-free in someone's mind
Questions about lived
- What does lived mean?
- Lived means having a specified duration of life.
- What is lived the simple past and past participle of?
- Lived is the simple past and past participle of live.
- What part of speech is lived?
- Lived is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce lived?
- Lived is pronounced /lɪvd/.
Words near lived in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lived (page history and authors); live (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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