live, verb, /lɪv/
1
if you live in a place, you have your home there.
to have a home in a specified place.
live in/at/near etc
They lived in Holland for ten years.
He lives just across the street from me.
We live only a few miles from the coast.
A rather odd family came to live next door to us.
As soon as I saw the place, I knew I didn’t want to live there.
Does Paul still live here? We’re still looking for somewhere to live.
They’ve finally found a place to live.
My grandmother came to live with us when I was ten.
Most seventeen-year-olds still live at home (=live with their parents).
I’m quite happy living alone.
The house has 3,600 square feet of living space (=the areas of a house you live in).
I ran away from home and lived rough for nine months.
He lives next door to his parents.
We lived in the city/suburbs/country.
I live on Main St. [=my house is on Main St.]
It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
He's still living at home (with his parents). animals living in zoos.
2
a plant or animal that lives in a particular place grows there or has its home there.
to grow naturally in a specified place or area.
These particular birds live on only one island in the Pacific.
Tigers don't live in Africa. [=there are no tigers in the wild in Africa]
We've been studying the plants and animals that live in this area.
3
if you live at a particular time, you are alive then.
He lived in the eighteenth century.
She lived at a time when women were not expected to work.
Gladstone lived during a period of great social change.
the best/greatest etc that/who ever lived (=the best, greatest etc who has been alive at any time).
He’s probably the best journalist who ever lived.
