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live

verb (HAVE A HOME)
 
 
/lɪv/

Definition

live in, at, etc. A1 to have your home somewhere: Where do you live? We live in London. Some students live on the University campus. He lives with four other people in a shared house.Living or sleeping somewhere [I] informal to be kept usually in a particular place: Where do the knives live in your kitchen? I'm not sure where this bowl lives.Existing and being
(Definition of live verb (HAVE A HOME) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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