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lived on

lived on is the simple past and past participle of live on.

Meaning of live on

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To endure.
    • Her memory lives on in our hearts.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To survive solely by consuming a certain thing.
    • When he was in the rainforest, he lived on bugs and rainwater.
  3. (transitive) To rely on financially.
    • She lives on a stipend from her parents.
  4. (idiomatic, transitive) To be defined on.
    • Let assets live on the grid #92;mathcal#123;A#125;#61;#91;a#95;1,a#95;2,#92;dots,a#95;n#93;.2018, Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent, Recursive Macroeconomic Theory, fourth edition, MIT Press, page 116

Questions about lived on

What is lived on the simple past and past participle of?
Lived on is the simple past and past participle of live on.

Words near lived on in the dictionary

  1. lived in the shadow of
  2. lived it up
  3. lived large
  4. lived off
  5. lived off the country
  6. lived on
  7. lived on the edge
  8. lived one's best life
  9. lived one's own life
  10. lived one's truth
  11. lived out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lived on (page history and authors); live on (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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