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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English liven, libben, from Old English lifian, libban (“to live; be alive”), from Proto-Germanic *libjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, cling, linger”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian lieuwje (“to live”), West Frisian libje (“to live”), Dutch leven (“to live”), German Low German leven, l?ven (“to live”), German leben (“to live”), Swedish leva (“to live”), Icelandic lifa (“to live”), Gothic ???????????????????? (liban, “to live”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: l?v, IPA^(key): /l?v/
• Rhymes: -?v
• Hyphenation: live

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To be alive; to have life.

2. (intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
   1. (intransitive, informal) (of an object) to have its proper place; to normally be stored.

3. (intransitive) To survive; to persevere; to continue.
4. (intransitive, hyperbolic) To cope.

5. (intransitive) To pass life in a specified manner.

6. (transitive) To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.
7. (transitive) To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life.
   • 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

     to live the Gospel
8. (intransitive) To outlast danger; to float (said of a ship, boat, etc).
9. (intransitive, followed by "on" or "upon") To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself; to feed; to subsist.

10. (intransitive, informal) To make the most of life; to experience a full, rich life.

Synonyms

• (to have permanent residence somewhere): dwell; See also Thesaurus:reside
• (to survive): go on, last, remain; See also Thesaurus:persist

Usage notes

Throughout Late Middle English and Early Modern English in Midlands and Northern dialects, the present participle form livand co-occurs with the form living.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• abide
• dwell
• reside
• stay

Etymology 2

See alive

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: l?v, IPA^(key): /la?v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /la?v/
• Rhymes: -a?v

Adjective

live (not comparable)

1. (only used attributively) Having life; that is alive.

   The post office will not ship live animals.

2. Being in existence; actual

   He is a live example of the consequences of excessive drinking.

3. Having active properties; being energized.

   Because the vaccinia virus is live, it is important to follow care instructions for the vaccination site.

4. Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc.
   1. (programming) Of an object or value: that may potentially be used in the future execution of a program.
      • Antonym: dead
5. Taken from a living animal.

   live feathers

6. (engineering) Imparting power; having motion.

   the live spindle of a lathe

   a live, or driving, axle

7. (sports) Still in active play.

   a live ball

8. (card games) Of a card: not yet dealt or played.
   • 2005, Alison M. Pendergast, Play Winning Poker in No Time (page 57)

     As a beginner, when you are in a hand, you should practice counting your outs, or those live cards left in the deck that can improve your hand.

9. (broadcasting) Being broadcast (“on the air”), as it happens.

   The station presented a live news program every evening.

   Are we live?

10. (of a performance or speech) In person.

    This nightclub has a live band on weekends.

11. (entertainment, performing) Recorded from a performance in front of an audience.

    a live album

12. Of firearms or explosives, capable of causing harm.

    The air force practices dropping live bombs on the uninhabited island.

13. (circuitry) Electrically charged or energized, usually indicating that the item may cause electrocution if touched.

    Use caution when working near live wires.

14. (poker) Being a bet which can be raised by the bettor, usually in reference to a blind or straddle.

    Tommy's blind was live, so he was given the option to raise.

15. Featuring humans; not animated, in the phrases “live actors” or “live action”.
16. Being in a state of ignition; burning.

    a live coal; live embers

17. (obsolete, slang, of a person) Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing.

    a live man, or orator
18. (obsolete) Vivid; bright.

    • the live carnation

Usage notes

• Live in the sense of "having life" is used only attributively (before a noun), as in "live animals". Predicatively (after the noun), alive is used, as in "be alive". Living may be used either attributively or predicatively.

Synonyms

• (having life): living, alive; see also Thesaurus:alive
• (being in existence): real
• (electrically charged): hot
• (in person): in person, in the flesh

Antonyms

• (having life): dead
• (capable of causing harm): blank, dummy
• (electrically charged): neutral, dead
• (as it happens): recorded, prerecorded
• (in person): broadcast
• (featuring humans): animated

Derived terms

Compounds

• live actors
• live action
• live album
• live box
• live broadcast
• live recording

Translations

Adverb

live (comparative more live, superlative most live)

2. Of an event, as it happens; in real time; direct.

   The concert was broadcast live by radio.

4. Of making a performance or speech, in person.

   He'll be appearing live at the auditorium.

Translations

Noun

live (plural lives)

1. (obsolete) life

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Geoffrey Chaucer to this entry?)

Further reading

• live in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• live in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Levi, Viel, evil, veil, vile, vlei

Danish

Etymology 1

Verbal form of the noun liv (“life”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?v?/, [?li????], [?li??]

Verb

live (imperative liv, infinitive at live, present tense liver, past tense livede, perfect tense har livet)

1. enliven

Usage notes

Used with op (“up”): live op

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English live [1965].

Adverb

live

1. live (as it happens)

Synonyms

• direkte

Esperanto

Adverb

live (lative liven)

1. (neologism) on the left

Synonyms

• maldekstre

Antonyms

• dekstre

Related terms

• liven

Finnish

Etymology 1

lipeä +? -e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li?e?/, [?li?e?(?)]
• Rhymes: -i?e
• Syllabification: li?ve

Noun

live

1. (dialectal) lye

Declension

Synonyms

• lipeä

Etymology 2

From English live.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li?e/, [?li?e?]
• Rhymes: -i?e
• Syllabification: li?ve

Adjective

live (not comparable)

1. (nonstandard) live

Usage notes

• Chiefly used as modifier in compound terms:

  live-esitys

  live performance

• Almost always used in essive singular when used independently:

  He esiintyvät tänään livenä areenalla.

  They will perform live today at the arena.

Synonyms

• elävä

Anagrams

• Elvi, Veli, ilve, veli

French

Adjective

live

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Derived terms

• album live

German

Etymology

From English live.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la??f/

Adverb

live

1. (broadcast, event) live (at it happens, in real time, directly)

Usage notes

• There is no adjective corresponding to live, but it can form compounds (see below).

Synonyms

• direkt
• in Echtzeit

Derived terms

• Livekonzert, Live-Konzert
• Liveschaltung, Live-Schaltung
• Livesendung, Live-Sendung
• Liveübertragung, Live-Übertragung

Further reading

• “live” in Duden online

Italian

Adjective

live (invariable)

1. Performed or recorded live

Anagrams

• levi
• veli
• vile

Latin

Verb

l?v?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of l?ve?

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²li???/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

live n

1. dative singular of liv

Usage notes

• Used only in the fixed expressions i live and til live.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English live.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l????/ (example of pronunciation)

Adjective

live (singular and plural live)

1. live (some technical senses)
   1. (broadcasting) on air
   2. (of a performance or speech) in person
   3. (entertainment, performing) recorded in front of a live audience

Etymology 3

From Old Norse hlífa, from Proto-Germanic *hl?bijan?. The noun is derived from the verb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²li???/ (example of pronunciation)

Verb

live (present tense liver, past tense livde, past participle livd/livt, passive infinitive livast, present participle livande, imperative liv)

1. (transitive) to shelter, protect, especially from the weather and elements

Alternative forms

• liva (a-infinitive)

Related terms

• livd f

Noun

live n (definite singular livet, uncountable)

1. (rare) shelter, cover, protection, especially from the elements

   Synonyms: le, livd, ly

Etymology 4

Of the noun liv n (“life”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²li???/ (example of pronunciation)

Verb

live (present tense livar, past tense liva, past participle liva, passive infinitive livast, present participle livande, imperative liv)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to liven

Alternative forms

• liva (a-infinitive)

Derived terms

• live opp

References

• “live” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• elvi, evli, leiv, Levi, veil

Picard

Etymology

From Latin liber.

Noun

live m (plural lives)

1. book

Swazi

Noun

líve 5 (plural émáve 6)

1. country

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /l?v/, [??v]
• (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): /l?v/
• Rhymes: -?v

Etymology 1

From Middle English love, luve, from Old English lufu, from Proto-Germanic *lub?, from Proto-Indo-European *lewb?- (“love, care, desire”).

The closing-of-a-letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like.

The verb is from Middle English loven, lovien, from Old English lufian (“to love”), from the noun lufu (“love”), see above.

Eclipsed non-native English amour (“love”), borrowed from French amour (“love”).

Noun

love (countable and uncountable, plural loves)

1. (uncountable) Strong affection.
   1. A profound and caring affection towards someone.
      • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost:

        He on his side / Leaning half-raised, with looks of cordial love / Hung over her enamoured.

      • 2014, S. Hidden, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Mystical Perspectives on the Love of God (?ISBN)
   2. Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being.
      • 1864, Utilitarianism Explained and Exemplified in Moral and Political Government:

        The love of your neighbor as yourself, is expressly given as the definition and test of Charity,—not alms-giving—and this love is [...] the highest of all the Divine commands[.]

   3. A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.
   4. A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something.
      • 2012, Philip Auerswald, The Coming Prosperity (?ISBN):

        For three decades, the average number of miles driven by US motorists increased steadily. Then, in 2007, that steady climb was suddenly halted. [...] What magic caused Americans to temper their longstanding love of the open road?

2. (countable) A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.
   • 1595, Edmund Spenser, Epithalamion

     Open the temple gates unto my love.

   • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene 2

     O love, dispatch all business, and be gone!
3. (colloquial, Commonwealth of Nations) A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.

4. A thing, activity, etc which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
   • 1997 March, "Faces of Today's Black Woman", in Ebony, volume 52, number 5, page 96:

     But it wasn't until [Theresa M. Claiborne] went to ROTC training camp at the University of California at Berkeley that she discovered that flying was her first love. "Pilots talk about getting bit by the flying bug," she says. "I thought, This is heaven."

5. (euphemistic) Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.
   • 2013, Ronald Long, Men, Homosexuality, and the Gods, Routledge (?ISBN), page 3:

     The prospect that their cherished Greeks would have countenanced, much less honored, a love between men that expressed itself carnally, however, was not so easily assimilated.

6. (euphemistic) Sexual activity.
   • 1986, Ben Elton & al., Blackadder II, "Bells":

     —What think you, my lord, of... love?

     —You mean ‘rumpy-pumpy’.

7. An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.
   • 2014, E. L. Todd, Then Came Absolution (?ISBN):

     Maybe it was just a summer love, something with no future.

8. Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.
9. Alternative letter-case form of Love (“personification of love”).
   • c. 1810,, Samuel Johnson (in The Works of Samuel Johnson):

     At busy hearts in vain love's arrows fly; [...]

10. (obsolete) A thin silk material.
    • 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours, […]

      Such a kind of transparency, as that of a Sive, a piece of Cyprus, or a Love-Hood.

11. A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.

Synonyms

• (darling, sweetheart): baby, darling, lover, pet, sweetheart, honey, love bird; see also Thesaurus:sweetheart
• (term of address): mate, lover, darling, sweetie, sweetheart; see also Thesaurus:lover
• (sexual desire): aphrodisia, carnality; see also Thesaurus:lust
• (sexual activity): coitus, sex, the beast with two backs; see also Thesaurus:copulation
• (instance of being in love): romance

Antonyms

• (strong affection): hate, hatred, angst; malice, spite
• (absence of love): indifference

Translations

See love/translations § Noun.

Verb

love (third-person singular simple present loves, present participle loving, simple past and past participle loved)

1. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VI

     I wanted to take her in my arms and tell her how I loved her, and had taken her hand from the rail and started to draw her toward me when Olson came blundering up on deck with his bedding.

   • 2013 February 26, Pink and Nate Ruess, Just Give Me a Reason:

     Just give me a reason, / just a little bit's enough, / just a second we're not broken, just bent / and we can learn to love again.

2. (transitive) To need, thrive on.

3. (transitive) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
4. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
   • John 3:16

     For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

   • Matthew: 22:37-38

     You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and your whole mind, and your whole soul; you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
5. (transitive) To derive delight from a fact or situation.

6. (transitive, euphemistic) To have sex with (perhaps from make love).

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (have a strong affection for): adore, cherish; see also Thesaurus:love
• (have sexual intercourse with): enjoy, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Antonyms

• hate, despise

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See love/translations § Verb.

See also

• charity

Etymology 2

From Middle English loven, lovien, from Old English lofian (“to praise, exalt, appraise, value”), from Proto-Germanic *lub?n? (“to praise, vow”), from *lub? (“praise”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewb?- (“to like, love, desire”), *lewb?-.

Verb

love (third-person singular simple present loves, present participle loving, simple past and past participle loved)

1. (transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To praise; commend.
2. (transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.

Etymology 3

Said by some to be from the idea that when one does a thing “for love”, that is for no monetary gain, the word “love” implies "nothing". The previously held belief that it originated from the French term l’œuf (“the egg”), due to its shape, is no longer widely accepted, though compare the use of duck (reputed to be short for duck's egg) for a zero score at cricket.

Noun

love (uncountable)

1. (racquet sports, billiards) Zero, no score.

   So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.

   • 2013, Paul McNamee, Game Changer: My Tennis Life

     The next day Agassi came back from two sets to love down to beat Courier in five sets.

2. Nothing; no recompense.
   • 1916, H. Rider Haggard, The Ivory Child

     I fought the white man for less than sixpence. I fought him for love, which is nothing at all.

Translations

References

• love at OneLook Dictionary Search
• love in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• love in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• levo, levo-, velo-, vole, voël

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?v?/

Etymology

Borrowed from Romani love.

Noun

love f pl

1. (slang) money

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• See also prachy

Noun

love m

1. vocative singular of lov

Further reading

• love in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l??v?/, [?l????], [?l???]

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German l?ve, from Proto-Germanic *galaubô, cognate with German Glaube.

Noun

love c

1. (obsolete) trust, faith

   only in the phrase på tro og love (“solemnly”)

References

• “love,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lofa, from Proto-Germanic *(ga)lub?n?, cognate with Swedish lova (“to promise; to praise”), German loben (“to praise”), geloben (“to vow”), Dutch loven (“to praise”).

Verb

love (past tense lovede, past participle lovet)

1. to promise
2. (solemn) to praise

Inflection

References

• “love,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “love,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 3

See See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

love c

1. indefinite plural of lov

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

love

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of loven

Anagrams

• velo, voel

French

Verb

love

1. inflection of lover:
   1. first-person /third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• vélo, vole, volé

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin lupa, feminine of lupus. Compare Venetian lova, French louve.

Pronunciation

Noun

love f (plural lovis)

1. she-wolf

Related terms

• lôf

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lo?v?/

Verb

love

1. to praise

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Inari Sami

Numeral

love

1. ten

Middle Dutch

Noun

l?ve

1. dative singular of lof

Middle English

Alternative forms

• luve, lufæ, lufe

Etymology

From Old English lufu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?luv(?)/

Noun

love (plural loves)

1. love

Descendants

• English: love
• Scots: luve, lufe

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse lofa.

Verb

love (imperative lov, present tense lover, simple past and past participle lova or lovet, present participle lovende)

1. to praise

Verb

love (imperative lov, present tense lover, simple past lova or lovet or lovte or lovde, past participle lova or lovet or lovt or lovd, present participle lovende)

1. to promise

   (as an adjective) det lovede land - the Promised Land

Related terms

• løfte

References

• “love” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

love (present tense lovar or lover, past tense lova or lovde, past participle lova or lovt or lovd, present participle lovande, imperative lov)

1. Alternative form of lova

Noun

love m (definite singular loven, indefinite plural lovar, definite plural lovane)

1. Alternative form of lóve

Anagrams

• vole

Romani

Noun

love

1. plural of lovo
2. money

Descendants

• ? French: lové
• ? Hungarian: lóvé
• ? Romanian: lovea
• ? Russian: ????? (lav??)
• ? Scots: lowie
• ? Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic: ?????
  • Latin: lóva
• ? Slovak: lóve

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

love (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. vocative singular of lov

Verb

love (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person plural present of loviti