What is the meaning of live?

verb

• Inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of.
  • usage: "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods"
  • synonyms: populate, dwell, inhabit
• Lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style.
  • usage: "we had to live frugally after the war"
• Continue to live through hardship or adversity.
  • usage: "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water"
  • synonyms: survive, last, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out
• Support oneself.
  • usage: "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"
  • synonyms: exist, survive, subsist
• Have life, be alive.
  • usage: "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war"
  • synonyms: be
• Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations.
  • usage: "I know the feeling"; "have you ever known hunger"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces"
  • synonyms: know, experience
• Pursue a positive and satisfying existence.
  • usage: "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live"

adjective

• Actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing.
  • usage: "a live television program"; "brought to you live from Lincoln Center"; "live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience"
  • synonyms: unrecorded
• Exerting force or containing energy.
  • usage: "live coals"; "tossed a live cigarette out the window"; "got a shock from a live wire"; "live ore is unmined ore"; "a live bomb"; "a live ball is one in play"
• Possessing life.
  • usage: "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve is alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive"; "burned alive"; "a live canary"
  • synonyms: alive
• Highly reverberant.
  • usage: "a live concert hall"
• Charged with an explosive.
  • usage: "live ammunition"; "a live bomb"
• Elastic; rebounds readily.
  • usage: "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resilient as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf"
  • synonyms: bouncy, lively, resilient, springy
• Abounding with life and energy.
  • usage: "the club members are a really live bunch"
• In current use or ready for use.
  • usage: "live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread"
• Of current relevance.
  • usage: "a live issue"; "still a live option"
• Charged or energized with electricity.
  • usage: "a hot wire"; "a live wire"
  • synonyms: hot
• Capable of erupting.
  • usage: "a live volcano"; "the volcano is very much alive"
  • synonyms: alive

adverb

• Not recorded.
  • usage: "the opera was broadcast live"