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lived

[ lahyvd, livd ]

adjective

  1. having life, a life, or lives, as specified (usually used in combination):

    a many-lived cat.



-lived

/ /

adjective

  1. having or having had a life as specified

    short-lived

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Pronunciation Note

Lived, meaning “having a certain kind or extent of life,” is not derived from the preterit and past participle of the verb live [liv], but from the noun life [lahyf], to which the suffix -ed has been added. The original pronunciation, therefore, and one still heard, is [lahyvd], which retains the vowel (ī) of life. Since the f of life changes to v with the addition of this suffix, as when leaf becomes leaved, this lived is identical in spelling with the preterit and past participle lived, and conflation of the two has led to the increasingly frequent pronunciation of this lived as [livd] in such combinations as long-lived and short-lived. Both pronunciations are considered standard.
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • 󲹱- adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of lived1

A Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; life, -ed 3
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Example Sentences

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A government report last year found women in Jersey lived longer than men, but spent more of their life in poor health.

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The Ainu lived in self-governing communities across the island and maintained their own traditions under Japanese imperial rule.

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It took my awestruck reaction to 18-plus hours of “The Vietnam War” in 2017 and its subsequent thrashing by historians and people who lived through that era to reach that conclusion.

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Her children have yet to come back to the house, where she has lived for 23 years, because they are scared to visit.

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The marketing and strategy masters student, who has lived in the area for four years, said "things were so static" voting was a "bit of a moot point".

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