lives

Meaning of lives

plural noun
  1. the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.
    the origins of life
    cats require visual experience during the first few weeks of life
  2. the existence of an individual human being or animal.
    a disaster that claimed the lives of 266 people
    she didn't want to die; she loved life
  3. the period between the birth and death of a living thing, especially a human being.
    she has lived all her life in the country
    they became friends for life
  4. vitality, vigour, or energy.
    she was beautiful and full of life
  5. (in art) the depiction of a subject from a real model, rather than from an artist's imagination.
    the pose and clothing were sketched from life

Old English līf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lijf, German Leib ‘body’, also to live1.

verb, 3rd person present
  1. remain alive.
    the doctors said she had only six months to live
    both cats lived to a ripe age
  2. make one's home in a particular place or with a particular person.
    I've lived in the East End all my life
    they lived with his grandparents

Old English libban, lifian, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch leven and German leben, also to life and leave1.

Information about lives

  • The singular form of lives is: life.
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Hyphenation of lives

lives

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • lives is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

lives synonyms

Meaning a way of living:

existence

Meaning existence:

being

Meaning the pursuit of a lifestyle of the specified type:

living

Meaning the state of being full of life or vigour; liveliness:

animation

Meaning existence; being:

entity

Meaning everything created; the universe:

creation

Meaning the state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically in spite of an accident, ordeal, or difficult circumstances:

survival

Meaning ability to work successfully:

viability

Meaning essential nature or essence:

esse

Meaning a human being regarded as an individual:

person

Meaning a single human being as distinct from a group:

individual

Meaning a human being subject to death, as opposed to a divine being:

mortal

Meaning the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal:

soul

Meaning an animal, as distinct from a human being:

creature

Meaning the duration of a person's life:

lifetime

Meaning each of the twenty-four-hour periods, reckoned from one midnight to the next, into which a week, month, or year is divided, and corresponding to a rotation of the earth on its axis:

days

Meaning (especially in a woman) the quality of being attractively lively and animated:

vivacity

Meaning the quality of being outgoing, energetic, and enthusiastic:

liveliness

Meaning the state of being strong and active; energy:

vitality

Meaning vigour and spirit or enthusiasm:

verve

Meaning vivacity and wit:

sparkle

Meaning the quality of being full of energy, excitement, and cheerfulness; ebullience:

exuberance

Meaning great enthusiasm and energy:

zest

Meaning a cheerful and optimistic attitude or disposition:

buoyancy

Meaning bubbles in a liquid; fizz:

effervescence

Meaning intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval:

enthusiasm

Meaning the strength and vitality required for sustained physical or mental activity:

energy

Meaning the quality of being characterized by vigorous activity and progress:

dynamism

Meaning spirit, animation, or energy:

go

Meaning energy, style, and enthusiasm:

elan

Meaning enjoyment and enthusiasm in doing something:

gusto

Meaning vigour or vivacity of style or performance:

brio

Meaning exuberant self-confidence:

bounce

Meaning the non-physical part of a person which is the seat of emotions and character; the soul:

spirit

Meaning busy or vigorous action or movement:

activity

Meaning fervent or passionate emotion or enthusiasm:

fire

Meaning flamboyant confidence of style or manner:

panache

Meaning features that lend a particularly interesting quality to something:

colour

Meaning an act of running somewhere suddenly and hastily:

dash

Meaning a trip or journey in a car:

drive

Meaning an act of pushing someone or something in order to move them away from oneself:

push

Meaning a person's regular occupation, profession, or trade:

business

Meaning excited activity and movement:

bustle

Meaning an act of moving:

movement

Meaning a slight physical movement:

stir

Meaning the quality of being exciting, energetic, or sexually attractive:

oomph

Meaning an attractive combination of vitality and glamour:

pizzazz

Meaning energy and high spirits; liveliness:

pep

Meaning energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness:

zing

Meaning a device consisting of two flexible strips of metal or plastic with interlocking projections closed or opened by pulling a slide along them, used to fasten garments, bags, and other items:

zip

Meaning energy; enthusiasm:

vim

Meaning the indispensable factor or influence that gives something its strength and vitality:

lifeblood

Meaning the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, which determines its character:

essence

Meaning the tough central part of various fruits, containing the seeds:

core

Meaning a hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation. In vertebrates there may be up to four chambers (as in humans), with two atria and two:

heart

Meaning the quality or state of being physically strong:

strength

Meaning the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class:

quintessence

Meaning a particular kind of matter with uniform properties:

substance

Meaning have one's permanent home in a particular place:

reside

Meaning rent accommodation in another person's house:

lodge

Meaning live and receive regular meals in a house in return for payment or services:

board

Meaning (of a person, animal, or group) live in or occupy (a place or environment):

inhabit

Meaning reside or have one's place of business in (a building):

occupy

Meaning form the population of (a place):

populate

Meaning remain in the same place:

stay

Meaning live in or at a specified place:

dwell

Meaning stay somewhere temporarily:

sojourn

Meaning remain or stay somewhere:

bide

lives antonyms

Meaning the action or fact of dying or being killed; the end of the life of a person or organism:

death

Anagrams of lives

Elvis, elvis, evils, Levis, levis, slive, veils, vleis, vlies

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