live on
verb- To endure. · Her memory lives on in our hearts.
- To survive solely by consuming a certain thing. · When he was in the rainforest, he lived on bugs and rainwater.
- To rely on financially. · She lives on a stipend from her parents.· I'm still living on the royalties from my first novel.
- To be defined on.
From the library
They are young in the ways of the world, and not yet open to the mortifying conviction that handsome young men must have something to live on as well as the plain.”
“What did they live on?” said Alice, who always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking.
But it’ll be enough for me to live on I reckon.
I live on a farm in New Zealand.
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