Patrick Klugman, the deputy mayor of Paris, said: “We are living our kind of 9/11,” he said.
Last week I turned 40, a bittersweet occasion because I crossed the line to living longer without my mother than with her.
But as an American creating a new brand here, and living the daily life of the souk, he seems to be in a league of his own.
A single father, he had been living abroad and returned when his mother was diagnosed with cancer.
I first saw Marvin when I was ten years old, living with my parents in Arlington, Virginia.
Some one said the other day, "Ennui is a disease that comes from living on other people's money."
So people say; but he doesn't show it in his dress or way of living.
She won't think much of a boy that has to pick berries for a living.
It seems to me that life is no life, but living death, without that freedom!
"There is not one chance in ten that he is living," he said.
"alive," also "residing, staying," c.1200, from present participle of live (v.)).
"living persons," late Old English; early 14c. as "the fact of dwelling in some place," from Old English lifiende "that lives or has life," present participle of lifan (see live (v.)). The meaning "action, process, or method of gaining one's livelihood" is attested from c.1400.
Old English lifian (Anglian), libban (West Saxon) "to be, to live, have life; to experience," also "to supply oneself with food, to pass life (in some condition)," from Proto-Germanic *liben (cf. Old Norse lifa "to live, remain," Old Frisian libba, German leben, Gothic liban "to live"), from PIE root *leip- "to remain, continue" (cf. Greek liparein "to persist, persevere;" see leave). Meaning "to make a residence, dwell" is from c.1200. Related: Lived; living.
According to the Dutch Prouerbe ... Leuen ende laetan leuen, To liue and to let others liue. [Malynes, 1622]To live it up "live gaily and extravagantly" is from 1903. To live up to "act in accordance with" is 1690s, from earlier live up "live on a high (moral or mental) level" (1680s). To live (something) down "outwear (some slander or embarrassment)" is from 1842. To live with "cohabit as husband and wife" is attested from 1749; sense of "to put up with" is attested from 1937. Expression live and learn is attested from c.1620.
1540s, "having life," later (1610s) "burning, glowing," a shortening of alive (q.v.). Sense of "containing unspent energy or power" (live ammunition, etc.) is from 1799. Meaning "in-person" (of performance) is first attested 1934. Live wire is attested from 1890; figurative sense of "active person" is from 1903.
live (līv)
adj.
Having life; alive.
Capable of replicating in a host's cells.
Containing living microorganisms or active virus, as a vaccine.
adjective
