vive
- long live; up with (a specified person or thing)
Word Origin
from French
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Examples from the Web for vive
Contemporary Examples
One unhappy attendee is even heard to shout, “Vive Lady Gaga!”
In 2000, he published another op-ed in the Post titled, spookily, ‘Vive what difference?’
Historical Examples
Yesterday a man is said to have cried, "Vive la Republique!"
He cried out in a manly voice, with perfect assurance, "Vive l'anarchie!"
My Double LifeSarah Bernhardt
Drawing it aside for the purpose, the words "Vive la Patria!"
The answer to the broadside was a cry of "Vive la Republique!"
The Settlers in CanadaFrederick Marryat
I can never think of this scene without exclaiming, “Vive Thomson!”
MemoirsCharles Godfrey Leland
Word Origin and History for vive
interj.
1590s (in vive le roi), from French, literally "long live ______;" French equivalent of viva (q.v.). Jocular phrase vive la différence in reference to the difference between men and women is recorded from 1963. Also in vive la bagatelle, literally "long live nonsense," denoting a carefree attitude to life.
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