LIVED Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

lived

verb

Definition of lived

past tense of live

as in resided

to have a home he lives next door to the hospital

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as in was

to have life Socrates was a philosopher who lived in ancient Greece

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Recent Examples of lived If more bucks lived to be 7 ½ years old like the one Mitch tagged in 1998, the county would certainly produce more record-book bucks. — Richard P. Smith, Outdoor Life, 27 Aug. 2026 At times, his psychological explanations may seem almost too orderly for a woman who lived so exuberantly in disorder. — Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026 And the Ancestral Pueblo people who lived there from 900 to 1150 CE used their trade connections with Mexico and Central America to import everything from scarlet macaws to cacao. — ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026 The office is surrounded by vintage tube equipment and a turntable that has lived music history. — Caroline Randall Williams, Architectural Digest, 27 Aug. 2026 But until Milosevic was toppled by a popular uprising in 2000, Mladic lived securely – if discreetly – in Belgrade. — Ivana Sekularac, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026 The trio lived and worked in space for 245 days, circling Earth 3,920 times and traveling a total of nearly 104 million miles (167 million kilometers), according to NASA. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2026 The National’s Daniel Bardsley, who once lived there, writes about a building that predates almost everything now surrounding it and provided an affordable home to thousands of residents over five decades. — Inzamam Rashid, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026 Homo heidelbergensis lived from about 700,000 to 200,000 years ago in Africa and Europe. — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for lived

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More than 139 container vessels resided in the port’s outer anchorages as of Thursday morning, Seko said.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 27 Aug. 2026
Finally, the next season, Karlsson was shuffled frequently between Abbotsford and Vancouver and resided at the fringes of the NHL lineup.

— Thomas Drance, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of resided

Verb

The club was live-action social media before social media existed.

— Derek C. Blasberg, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026
That year, Congress passed the Humphrey-Hawkins Act, which required the Fed chair to report to Congress twice a year – a formal and recurring channel of oversight that hadn’t existed before.

— Paul Wachtel, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2026