leben
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of leben
C17: from Arabic laban
Example Sentences
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Under the body is the inscription: "Wir starben, auf dass Deutschland lebe, so lasset uns leben in euch" - "We died that Germany lives, so let us live in you".
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2014
It's all very apparent today, this spirit of "leben und leben lassen"�a cheery apathy and beery tolerance combined with a benign condescension toward anything German that is not also old Bavarian.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hoch soil er leben, Hock soil er leben, Hoch soil er leben.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were certain runaways whom Fritz the Great bullied back into the battle with a 'R�, wollt ihr ewig leben?'
From Time Magazine Archive
“I’m in dry-goods business twenty years—fifteen on Grand Stritt and five on Graham Am-yer and never ins leben do I see a seven months so big.”
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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