Definition of lived

"lived" in the verb sense

1. populate, dwell, live, inhabit

be an inhabitant of or reside in

"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"

2. live

lead a certain kind of life live in a certain style

"we had to live frugally after the war"

3. survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out

continue to live and avoid dying

"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?" "One crash victim died, the other lived"

4. exist, survive, live, subsist

support oneself

"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"

5. be, live

have life, be alive

"Our great leader is no more"

"My grandfather lived until the end of war"

6. know, experience, live

have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations

"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"

7. live

pursue a positive and satisfying existence

"You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live"

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Quotations for lived

Prettiness is short-lived. [ Proverb ]

Here lies the body of Ann Mann,
Who lived an old woman,
And died an old Mann. [ Epitaph ]

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. [ Socrates ]

O, though oft oppressed and lonely,
All my fears are laid aside,
If I but remember only
Such as these have lived and died! [ Longfellow ]

Anger is short-lived in a good man. [ Proverb ]

He lived upon dew like a grasshopper. [ Proverb ]

Only so much do I know as I have lived. [ Emerson ]

None have lived without shedding tears. [ Voltaire ]

Life only avails, not the having lived. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Nothing is more short-lived than pride. [ Ben Jonson ]

He who has lived a day has lived an age. [ Bruyere ]

Labour as long lived, pray as even dying. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Notoriety is short-lived; fame is lasting. [ Bancroft ]

You have not lived all your time upon nuts. [ Proverb ]

He hath not lived that lives not after death. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. [ Dryden, after Horace ]

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. [ Dryden ]

Not that the heavens the little can make great,
But many a man has lived an age too late. [ R. H. Stoddard ]

They talk of short-lived pleasures - be it so -
Pain dies as quickly; stern, hard-featured pain
Expires, and lets her weary prisoner go.
The fiercest agonies have shortest reign. [ Bryant ]

So lived our sires, ere doctors learned to kill,
And multiplied with theirs the weekly bill. [ Dryden ]

He hath lived ill that knows not how to die well. [ Proverb ]

Tomorrow will I live, the fool does say:
Today itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday. [ Cowley ]

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity. [ Ovid ]

The man that once did sell the lion's skin
While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him. [ William Shakespeare ]

They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. [ Sheridan ]

He's as sharp as if he lived upon Tewksbury mustard. [ Proverb ]

O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. [ William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act V. Sc.1 ]

He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. [ Ovid ]

I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved. [ Schiller ]

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

Peace won by compromise is usually a short-lived achievement. [ Winfield Scott ]

Once every atom of this ground lived, breathed, and felt like me! [ James Montgomery ]

They have been at a great feast of language, and stolen the scraps.
They have lived long in the alms-basket of words! [ William Shakespeare ]

It has been a great misfortune to many a one that he lived too long. [ Proverb ]

Many have lived on a pedestal, who will never have a statue when dead. [ Beranger ]

Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved. [ Alfred de Musset ]

He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived. [ Erasmus ]

After love friendship (when we have lived through love we begin friendship). [ Heine ]

It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seem beautiful. [ Ouida ]

A moment lived in paradise is not purchased too dearly at the ransom of death. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived. [ Cicero ]

When I lived, I provided for everything but death; now I must die, and am unprepared. [ Caesar Borgia ]

Youth is presumptuous, old age is timid: the former aspires to live, the latter has lived. [ Mme. Roland ]

The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed, believed rather than lived. [ O. A. Brownson ]

Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does. [ William Mountford ]

Nevertheless, even envy, however unwilling, will have to admit that I have lived among great men. [ Horace ]

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived, and apt to have ague fits. [ Erasmus ]

Wit is, in general, the finest sense in the world. I had lived long before I discovered that wit was truth. [ Dr. Richard Porson ]

With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. [ Thoreau ]

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well. [ Quarles ]

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice. [ Martial ]

Poetry is music in words, and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but they have lived and died poor, that made them their meat. [ Fuller ]

Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato. [ Swift ]

They who are most weary of life, and yet are most unwilling to die, are such who have lived to no purpose, - who have rather breathed than lived. [ Lord Clarendon ]

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there the whole aspect of things changes. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The head learns new things, but the heart forevermore practices old experiences. Therefore our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ever lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return. [ Hillard ]

Your estate, your home, and your pleasing wife must be left, and of these trees which you are rearing, not one shall follow you, their short-lived owner, except the hateful cypresses. [ Horace ]

There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with ourselves. [ Joubert ]

We protract the career of time by employment, we lengthen the duration of our lives by wise thoughts and useful actions. Life to him who wishes not to have lived in vain is thought and action. [ Zimmermann ]

Receive with a thankful hand every hour that God may have granted you, and defer not the comforts of life to another year; that in whatever place you are, you may say you have lived agreeably. [ Horace ]

Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters? [ Alcott ]

For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step. [ Juvenal ]

Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket. [ Goldsmith ]

Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Domitian said, that nothing was more grateful; Aristotle afirmed that beauty was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature, and Ovid, alluding to him, calls it a favor bestowed by the gods. [ From the Italian ]

Since I was seven years old I have seldom take, a dose of medicine, and have still seldomer needed one. But up to seven I lived exclusively on allopathic medicines. Not that I needed them, for I don't think I did; it was for economy; my father took a drug-store for a debt, and it made cod-liver oil cheaper than the other breakfast foods. We had nine barrels of it, and it lasted me seven years. Then I was weaned. The rest of the family had to get along with rhubarb and ipecac and such things, because I was the pet. I was the first Standard Oil Trust. I had it all. By the time the drugstore was exhausted my health was established, and there has never been much the matter with me since. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

lived in Scrabble®

The word lived is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters lived:

VIED
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word lived

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In lived

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lived in Words With Friends™

The word lived is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters lived:

VEIL
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VIED
(57)
 

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Words within the letters of lived

2 letter words in lived (2 words)

3 letter words in lived (7 words)

4 letter words in lived (10 words)

5 letter words in lived (Anagrams) (2 words)

lived + 1 blank (6 words)

Words containing the sequence lived

Words that start with lived (1 word)

Words with lived in them (1 word)

Words that end with lived (5 words)

Word Growth involving lived

Shorter words in lived

live

Longer words containing lived

longlived

outlived

relived

shortlived