If you live in a particular place, it is your home.
If you want to say that a place is someone's home, don't use a progressive form of live. You only use a progressive form when you are saying that someone has just moved to a place, or that it is their home for a temporary period.
If you want to say how long you have been living in a place, you use for or since. You say, for example, 'I have been living here for four years', 'I have been living here since 2007', or 'I have lived here since 2007'. Don't say 'I am living here for four years' or 'I am living here since 2007'.
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| Verb | 1. | live - inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods" tenant - occupy as a tenant lodge in, occupy, reside - live (in a certain place); "She resides in Princeton"; "he occupies two rooms on the top floor" domicile, domiciliate, reside, shack - make one's home in a particular place or community; "may parents reside in Florida" people - furnish with people; "The plains are sparsely populated" overpopulate - cause to have too great a population; "Some towns in New Jersey are becoming overpopulated" cohabit, live together, shack up - share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple lodge - be a lodger; stay temporarily; "Where are you lodging in Paris?" bivouac, camp, camp out, encamp, tent - live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room" nest - inhabit a nest, usually after building; "birds are nesting outside my window every Spring" be - occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?" |
| 2. | live - lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style; "we had to live frugally after the war" move - live one's life in a specified environment; "she moves in certain circles only" dissipate - live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption live - pursue a positive and satisfying existence; "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live" swing - live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style; "The Woodstock generation attempted to swing freely" wanton - indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life vegetate - lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind bushwhack - live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla buccaneer - live like a buccaneer eke out - live from day to day, as with some hardship; "He eked out his years in great poverty" cash out - choose a simpler life style after questioning personal and career satisfaction goals; "After 3 decades in politics, she cashed out and moved to Polynesia" | |
| 3. | live - continue to live through hardship or adversity; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?" live, be - have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war" subsist, exist, survive, live - support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day" hold water, stand up, hold up - resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.; "Her shoes won't hold up"; "This theory won't hold water" perennate - survive from season to season, of plants live out - live out one's life; live to the end | |
| 4. | live - support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day" breathe - be alive; "Every creature that breathes" freewheel, drift - live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely; "My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school" live on, survive, last, live, endure, hold out, hold up, go - continue to live through hardship or adversity; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?" | |
| 5. | live - have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war" live on, survive, last, live, endure, hold out, hold up, go - continue to live through hardship or adversity; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?" | |
| 6. | live - have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces" taste - experience briefly; "The ex-slave tasted freedom shortly before she died" experience, go through, see - go or live through; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam" | |
| 7. | live - pursue a positive and satisfying existence; "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live" live - lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style; "we had to live frugally after the war" | |
| Adj. | 1. | live - actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing; "a live television program"; "brought to you live from Lincoln Center"; "live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience"recorded - set down or registered in a permanent form especially on film or tape for reproduction; "recorded music" |
| 2. | live - exerting force or containing energy; "live coals"; "tossed a live cigarette out the window"; "got a shock from a live wire"; "live ore is unmined ore"; "a live bomb"; "a live ball is one in play" active - (of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt; "active volcanos" dead - not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead" | |
| 3. | live - possessing life; "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve is alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive"; "burned alive"; "a live canary" animate - endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings" | |
| 4. | live - highly reverberant; "a live concert hall" reverberant - having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected; "a reverberant room"; "the reverberant booms of cannon" | |
| 5. | live - charged with an explosive; "live ammunition"; "a live bomb" loaded - (of weapons) charged with ammunition; "a loaded gun" | |
| 6. | live - elastic; rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resilient as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf" elastic - capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy; "an elastic band"; "a youthful and elastic walk" | |
| 7. | live - abounding with life and energy; "the club members are a really live bunch" colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech lively - full of life and energy; "a lively discussion"; "lively and attractive parents"; "a lively party" | |
| 8. | live - in current use or ready for use; "live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread" printing process, printing - reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication current - occurring in or belonging to the present time; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position" | |
| 9. | live - of current relevance; "a live issue"; "still a live option" current - occurring in or belonging to the present time; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position" | |
| 10. | live - charged or energized with electricity; "a hot wire"; "a live wire" electricity - a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons charged - of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge; "charged particles"; "a charged battery" | |
| 11. | live - capable of erupting; "a live volcano"; "the volcano is very much alive"active - (of e.g. volcanos) capable of erupting | |
| Adv. | 1. | live - not recorded; "the opera was broadcast live" |