Be an inhabitant of or reside in:
— People lived in Africa millions of years ago.

synonyms: dwell, inhabit, populate.

Roget 873: be conscious of glory; be proud of etc. (pride) 878; exult etc. (boast) 884; be vain of etc. (vanity) 880.    be distinguished etc. adj.; shine etc. (light) 420; shine forth, figure; cut a figure, make a dash, make a splash.    rival, surpass; outshine, outrival, outvie^†, outjump; emulate, eclipse; throw into the shade, cast into the shade; overshadow.    live, flourish, glitter, flaunt, gain honor, acquire honor etc. n.; play first fiddle etc. (be of importance) 642, bear the palm, bear the bell; lead the way; take precedence, take the wall of; gain laurels, win laurels, gain spurs, gain golden opinions etc. (approbation) 931; take one's degree, pass one's examination.    make a noise, make some noise, make a noise in the world; leave one's mark, exalt one's horn, blow one's horn, star it, have a run, be run after; come into vogue, come to the front; raise one's head.    enthrone, signalize, immortalize, deify, exalt to the skies; hand one's name down to posterity.    consecrate; dedicate to, devote to; enshrine, inscribe, blazon, lionize, blow the trumpet, crown with laurel.    confer honor on, reflect honor on etc. v.; shed a luster on; redound.   to one's honor, ennoble.    give honor to, do honor to, pay honor to, render honor to; honor, accredit, pay regard to, dignify, glorify; sing praises to etc. (approve) 931; lock up to; exalt, aggrandize, elevate, nobilitate [Lat.].    ... show more

Roget 186: exist in space, be present etc. adj.; assister^†; make one of, make one at; look on, attend, remain; find oneself, present oneself; show one's face; fall in the way of, occur in a place; lie, stand; occupy; be there.    people; inhabit, dwell, reside, stay, sojourn, live, abide, lodge, nestle, roost, perch; take up one's abode etc. (be located) 184; tenant.    resort to, frequent, haunt; revisit.    fill, pervade, permeate; be diffused, be disseminated, be through; over spread, overrun; run through; meet one at every turn.    ... show more

Dutch: bevolken

Lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style.

Continue to live and avoid dying:
— The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents.
— One crash victim died, the other lived.

synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live on, survive.

Roget 141: let alone, let be, let it be; persist, remain, stay, tarry, rest; stet (copy editing) hold, hold on; last, endure, bide, abide, aby^†, dwell, maintain, keep; stand, stand still, stand fast; subsist, live, outlive, survive; hold one's ground, keep one's ground, hold one's footing, keep one's footing; hold good.    ... show more

Dutch: handhaven, leven, overblijven, overleven, trotseren, voortbestaan, voortduren, voortleven

Support oneself:
— Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?.

synonyms: exist, subsist, survive.

Roget 1: exist, be; have being etc. n.; subsist, live, breathe, stand, obtain, be the case; occur etc. (event) 151; have place, prevail; find oneself, pass the time, vegetate.    consist in, lie in; be comprised in, be contained in, be constituted by.    come into existence etc. n.; arise etc. (begin) 66; come forth etc. (appear) 446.    become etc. (be converted) 144; bring into existence etc. 161.    abide, continue, endure, last, remain, stay.    ... show more

Roget 359: be alive etc. adj.; live, breathe, respire; subsist etc. (exist) 1; walk the earth, strut and fret one's hour upon the stage" [Macbeth]; be spared.    see the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw breath, fetch the breath of life, draw the breath of life; quicken; revive; come to life.    give birth to etc. (produce) 161; bring to life, put into life, vitalize; vivify, vivificate^†; reanimate etc. (restore) 660; keep alive, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door; support life.    hive nine lives like a cat.    ... show more

Dutch: bestaan

Have life, be alive:
— My grandfather lived until the end of war.

synonym: be.

Dutch: bestaan, existeren, leven, overleven, verderleven, voortbestaan, wonen

Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations:
— 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: experience, know.

Pursue a positive and satisfying existence.

Actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing:
— A live television program.
— Brought to you live from Lincoln Center.
— Live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience.

synonym: unrecorded.

Roget 532: many-tongued; rumored; publicly rumored, currently rumored, currently reported; rife, current, floating, afloat, going about, in circulation, in every one's mouth, all over the town.    in progress; live; on the spot; in person.    ... show more

Exerting force or containing energy.

Possessing life:
— The happiest person alive.
— The nerve is alive.
— Doctors are working hard to keep him alive.
— Burned alive.
— A live canary.

synonym: alive.

Highly reverberant.

Charged with an explosive.

Elastic; rebounds readily:
— A lively tennis ball.

synonyms: bouncy, lively, resilient, springy.

Abounding with life and energy.

In current use or ready for use.

Of current relevance.

Polish: aktualny, niezwietrzały

Charged or energized with electricity:
— A live wire.

synonym: hot.

Roget 382: hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen; thermal, thermic; calorific; fervent, fervid; ardent; aglow.    sunny, torrid, tropical, estival^†, canicular^†, steamy; close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive; reeking etc. v.; baking etc. 384.    red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning etc. v.. hot, piping hot; like a furnace, like an oven; burning, hot as fire, hot as pepper; hot enough to roast an ox, hot enough to boil an egg.    fiery; incandescent, incalescent^†; candent^†, ebullient, glowing, smoking; live; on fire; dazzling etc. v.; in flames, blazing, in a blaze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished^†; smoldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific^†; sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool.    volcanic, plutonic, igneous; isothermal^†, isothermic^†, isotheral^†.    ... show more

Capable of erupting:
— A live volcano.
— The volcano is very much alive.

synonym: alive.

Not recorded.