Live On

Definition: Live On

Live On

Verb

1. Continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "The legend of Elvis lives on"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Live On

Food

Live on; feed upon, batten upon, fatten upon, feast upon; browse, graze, crop, regale; carouse; (make merry); eat heartily, do justice to, play a good knife and fork, banquet.

Physical Pleasure

Live on the fat of the land, live in comfort. adVerb: bask in the sunshine, faire ses choux gras.

Prosperity

Keep oneself afloat; keep one's head above water, hold one's head above water; land on one's feet, light on one's feet, light on one's legs, fall on one's legs, fall on one's feet; drop into a good thing; bear a charmed life; bask in the sunshine; have a good time of it, have a fine time of it; have a run of luck; have the good fortune; n. to; take a favorable turn; live on the fat of the land, live off the fat of the land, live in clover.

Crosswords: Live On

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. (The Crow; writing credit: David J. Schow, John Shirley)

I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees! (Repo Man; writing credit: Alex Cox)

His parents live on the island. (Look Who's Talking; writing credit: Amy Heckerling)

Too bad we don't live on a farm. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

An asassination live on television coast to coast - that's entertainment! (Phantom of the Paradise; writing credit: Brian De Palma)

And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street (Like a Rolling Stone; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

For both of us to live on the run (Feelin' Stronger Everyday; performing artist: Chicago)

Just let our spirits live on, through our lyrics that you hear in our songs (Sing For The Moment; performing artist: EMINEM)

Some dreams live on in time forever (REACH; performing artist: Gloria Estefan)

Live on, stay strong (Love Is All We Need; performing artist: Mary J. Blige)

I became a professional fisherman, but discovered that I couldn't live on my net income. (references; author: unknown)

I Live on Danger (1942)

Robin Williams: Live on Broadway (2002)

David Baddiel Live on the Too Much Information Tour (1998)

Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip (1982)

Today's Special: Live on Stage (1981)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Who Am I ?: I Am Pink and Curly-Tailed Fat and Grunting I Live on a Farm (Butterfield, Moira, Who Am I?,) (reference)

• Furtive Fauna: A Field Guide to the Creatures Who Live on You (reference)

• You Can't Live on Radishes (reference)

• How to Live on Almost Nothing and Have Plenty: A Practical Introduction to Small-Scale Sufficient Living (reference)

• Supercharged - Live on the Edge Nothing Back - No Fear - No Regrets (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Jerry Seinfeld Live on Broadway: I'm Telling You for the Last Time (reference)

• Fatboy Slim: Live on Brighton Beach - Big Beach Boutique, Vol. 2 (reference)

• Al Hirt: Live on Bourbon Street (reference)

• Robin Williams - Live on Broadway (reference)

• Red Elvises: Live on the Pacific Ocean (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Live On Letterman : Music From The Late Show [LIVE] (reference)

• Live on the Cote D'Azur (reference)

• Live on Brighton Beach (reference)

• Heavier Than Air: Live on the BBC [LIVE] (reference)

• Sings the New Sound From England / Live on Tour (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Communities of oysters live on mangrove roots. They are harvested by local fishermen. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Sloops cruising for fish One sloop is for crew to live on and to tow seine-boats The others to carry fish to the factory. From a sketch by Capt. B. F. Conklin. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Echinometra mathaei, live on sand background. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

"Get some of Mellin's Food. I live on it.". Credit: National Library of Medicine.

A globe to live on!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Many families live on riverboats in Charleston, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Filipino gang labor in pea fields near Pismo Beach, Nipomo, California. Work for Japanese, live on Japanese ranches. Sixty men in this gang. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wife and five children of migratory fruit worker. American River camp on outskirts of Sacramento, California. Have worked in the fruit since 1931. "We don't make a living, but we live on what we make". Credit: Library of Congress.

A Mississippi Negro family who live on a cotton patch near Vicksburg. Credit: Library of Congress.

Farmer and his wife who live on one of the hill farms east of Burlington, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

They live on rice and beans, the business men said.

It was fit that I should live on rice, mainly, who love so well the philosophy of India.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Body lice are parasitic insects that live on the body and in the clothing or bedding of infested humans. (references)

For several years, NINDS-supported investigators involved in the search for the HD gene made yearly visits to the largest known kindred with HD�14,000 individuals�who live on Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. (references)

Native American youths who live on reservations, where socioeconomic distress and school dropout rates are high, typically have higher rates of inhalant abuse than both the general population of young people and those Native American youths who do not live on reservations. (references)

Business

More and more young people are working now and have the means to live on their own. Furthermore, an increasing number of students from the interior provinces and abroad are moving to Buenos Aires for short-term education or intern programs. (references)

Children

Honduras

Over 75 percent of street children live on the streets because of severe family problems; 30 percent simply were abandoned. (references)

Nicaragua

According to UNICEF, this number is expected to increase because the population of children under the age of 5 years who live on the streets is increasing. (references)

Cambodia

Poverty and domestic violence often drive children to live on the streets; domestic NGO's estimate there are more than 10,000 street children in Phnom Penh alone, who are easy targets for sexual abuse and exploitation. (references)

Civil Liberties

Philippines

Most live on Palawan Island or in major urban areas. (references)

Slovenia

A newspaper is published for the ethnic Italian minority who live on the Adriatic Coast. (references)

Economic History

Seychelles

About 90% of the Seychellois people live on Mahe Island. (references)

Indigenous People

Peru

They are ethnically distinct from the diverse indigenous groups that live on the eastern side of the Andes and in the tropical lowlands adjacent to the Amazon basin. (references)

Dominica

There is a significant Carib Indian population, estimated at 3,400 persons, of a total population of 72,000. Most live on a 3,783-acre reservation created in 1903 and expanded in 1997. School, water, and health facilities available on the Carib reservation are rudimentary but similar to those available to other rural citizens. (references)

Political Rights

Vietnam

Legislators questioned and criticized ministers in sessions broadcast live on television. (references)

Travel

Mauritius

Many expatriates live on the central plateau, where monthly rent for a 200-square-meter apartment is about MRS 20,000-25,000 ($690-860). (references)

Women

Kenya

For example, under the customary law of most ethnic groups, a woman cannot inherit land and must live on the land as a guest of males who are relatives by blood or marriage. (references)

Worker Rights

Gambia

Most citizens do not live on a single worker's earnings, but they share resources within extended families. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "live on": live on air ♦ live on bread and cheese ♦ live on bread and water ♦ live on by ♦ live on charity ♦ live on dry rations ♦ live on flesh ♦ live on one's wits ♦ live on smth. ♦ live on the fat of the land ♦ live on the second floor ♦ live on the sweat of the people ♦ To live on one's capital. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏عاش على الأخرين (live on smth.), ‏عاش عالة (live on smth.). (various references)

Czech

žít z milodarù (live on charity). (various references)

Dutch

bestaan van (live upon). (various references)

Esperanto

gajni sian porvivon per (live upon). (various references)

Finnish

elää jostakin (jollakin, live, live by, subsist on). (various references)

French

survivre (live through), rester (lie). (various references)

German

zehren von (feed on, live off), weiterleben (survival, survive), sich ernähren von (earn one's living by, subsist on, to feed on). (various references)

Greek 

ζω με, ζω από, ακόμα ζω, αποζώ. (various references)

Hungarian

vmiből él (to earn one's living by sg, to live by, to live on), vadházasságban él vkivel (to live on tally with sy), tovább él (to live on), megél vmiből (to coast, to live off of sg, to live off sg, to live on sg, to make do on sg), mások nyakán él (to eat the bread of idleness, to live on others), fenntartja magát (to keep afloat, to live on sg), bőségben él (to live at rack and manger, to live on the fat of the land, to luxuriate), él vmiből (to depend on sg for one's livelihood, to earn one's living by sg, to live by, to live on). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

霞�'食う (to live on air), 翻訳で食って行く (to live on translation), 恋い忍ぶ (to live on love). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほ�"やくでくっていく (to live on translation), かすみ�'くう (to live on air), �"いしのぶ (to live on love). (various references)

Pig Latin

ivelay onay

Romanian

locui la etajul al doilea (live on the second floor), trai din pomanã (live on bread and cheese), trãi din truda poporului (live on the sweat of the people), trãi cu pâine şi cu apã (live on bread and water), se hrãni cu pâine şi cu brânzã (live on bread and cheese), se descurca (contrive, disentangle, extricate oneself, live on one's wits, manage, rub along, rub on, shift, unravel), huzuri (live on the fat of the land), fi carnivor (live on flesh). (various references)

Russian 

жить неизвестно чем (to live on air /on nothing/), питаться всухомятку (live on dry rations), питаться воздухом (to live on air /on nothing/). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

živeti na suvoj hrani (live on dry rations). (various references)

Spanish

vivir (be alive, breathe, do, exist, hang out, let out, line, live, live through, live up, reside, tough), tomar (accept, catch, draw, draw in, drink, eat, engulf, get, have, impound, lay hold of, lift out, live, live off, live through, pick up, receive, reduce, strike, swallow up, take, take in, take on, take out, take up, take upon, taking, throw out, to have, to take, touch, treat, understand), seguir vivo, seguir viviendo, residir (exist, hang out, live, reside, sojourn, to reside), poseer (carry on, cut, cut out, have, live, live through, live up, own, posses, possess), pedir (apply for, ask, ask for, beg, bid, book, call for, charge, crave, demand, indent for, inquire, invite, live off, order, postulate for, put upon, request, require, reserve, seek, sue for, summon, supplicate, tell off, to ask for, to order, treat), devorar (demolish, devour, eat, live off, Raven, walk in), consumir (consume, dig into, drain, eat, expend, get through, live off, shrivel, use up, waste, wear away), comer (comic, eat, eat away, feed, have dinner, lap up, live off, lunch, luncheon, meal, partake of, take, take a meal, to eat, trifle, tuck, tuck away, tuck in), alimentarse de. (various references)

Swedish

fortleva (linger, survive). (various references)

Turkish

geçimini sağlamak (earn one's keep, fend for oneself, live off, live on by, support oneself), beslenmek (be fed, feed, take nourishment). (various references)

Ukrainian

продовжувати жити. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: eloin, envoi, levin, liven, novel, olein, olive, ovine, voile.

-2 letters: enol, evil, leno, levo, lien, line, lino, lion, live, loin, lone, love, nevi, noel, noil, oven, veil, vein, vile, vine, vino, viol, vole.

-3 letters: eon, ion, lei, lev, lie, lin, nil, oil, ole, one, vie, voe.

-4 letters: el, en, in, li, lo, ne, no.

+1 letter: involve, olivine, violent, violone.

+2 letters: bovinely, evolving, evulsion, hoveling, involute, involved, involver, involves, livelong, lovevine, nonlives, novalike, novelise, novelist, novelize, olivines, ovenlike, overlain, violence, violones.

+3 letters: antinovel, covelline, devolving, elevation, enviously, evildoing, evolution, evulsions, groveling, hovelling, insolvent, inviolate, involucre, involuted, involutes, involvers, longevity, lovevines, nonviable, novelised, novelises, novelists, novelized, novelizes, novelties, olivenite, overlying, resolving, revolting, revolving, revulsion, shoveling, vermilion, versional, videoland, violences, violently, volleying, wolverine.