alive
possessing life
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,101 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 16,701 times across 175,113 chapters — 0.008% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- possessing life also: live the happiest person alivethe nerve is alive
- (often followed by `with') full of life and spirit she was wonderfully alive for her agea face alive with mischief
- having life or vigor or spirit also: animated an animated and expressive faceanimated conversation
- (followed by `to' or `of') aware of is alive to the moods of others
- in operation also: active keep hope alivethe tradition was still alive
- mentally perceptive and responsive also: alert, awake an alert mindalert to the problems
alive in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The country around them was alive with ghostly legend.
The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance · Hall, Sir Caine · Chapter 1
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A mob determined to secure the fugitive murderer and burn him alive.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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Eighteen men had been brought up alive, and Johnny McLean was one.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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Wife, but I see them plain: Alive, alert, every man stirs again.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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And as he said this he embraced Hystaspes; both shared one feeling; their sons had been as dead and were now alive.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1